Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... thought . If he had devoted his residence at the University to the drudgery necessary to take a high degree , and had actually been Senior Wrangler or Senior Medallist , or both , and a Fellow of Trinity to boot , he might afterwards ...
... thought . If he had devoted his residence at the University to the drudgery necessary to take a high degree , and had actually been Senior Wrangler or Senior Medallist , or both , and a Fellow of Trinity to boot , he might afterwards ...
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... thought it deserving of a place in the De Augmentis . ' While thinking that he should spend his life in such speculations and pursuits , he heard of the sudden death of his father , and he was reserved for a very different destiny . He ...
... thought it deserving of a place in the De Augmentis . ' While thinking that he should spend his life in such speculations and pursuits , he heard of the sudden death of his father , and he was reserved for a very different destiny . He ...
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... thought that he might be of service to the Crown . The Queen frequently admitted him to her presence , and conversed with him not only about matters of law , but points of general learning and affairs of state , finding much ...
... thought that he might be of service to the Crown . The Queen frequently admitted him to her presence , and conversed with him not only about matters of law , but points of general learning and affairs of state , finding much ...
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... . Such sentiments must have appeared very foolish to the crusty Lord Treasurer , who thought all qualities and y Bacon to Burghley , 1591 . z Same to Same , 1594 . occupations were vain and idle which did not lead directly.
... . Such sentiments must have appeared very foolish to the crusty Lord Treasurer , who thought all qualities and y Bacon to Burghley , 1591 . z Same to Same , 1594 . occupations were vain and idle which did not lead directly.
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... thought it not fit time to deal with her in any sort , especially since her choler grew towards myself , which I have well satisfied this day , and will take the first opportunity I can to move your suit . ” — “ I have now spoken with ...
... thought it not fit time to deal with her in any sort , especially since her choler grew towards myself , which I have well satisfied this day , and will take the first opportunity I can to move your suit . ” — “ I have now spoken with ...
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Página 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Página 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Página 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Página 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Página 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Página 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Página 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Página 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 136 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.