Bacon: His Writings and His PhilosophyC. Knight, 1846 |
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Página 183
... Perkin Warbeck , first heard of in 1492 : - At this time the King began again to be haunted with spirits , by the magic and curious arts of the Lady Margaret , who raised up the ghost of Richard , Duke of York , second son to Kiug ...
... Perkin Warbeck , first heard of in 1492 : - At this time the King began again to be haunted with spirits , by the magic and curious arts of the Lady Margaret , who raised up the ghost of Richard , Duke of York , second son to Kiug ...
Página 184
... Perkin Warbeck , whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well . Secondly , he was a youth of fine favour and shape . But more than that , he had such a crafty and bewitching fashion , both to move pity ...
... Perkin Warbeck , whose adventures we shall now describe . For first , the years agreed well . Secondly , he was a youth of fine favour and shape . But more than that , he had such a crafty and bewitching fashion , both to move pity ...
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... Perkin should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the Duchess , to go for Ireland , according to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive , at the town of Cork . When he was thither come , his own tale was , when ...
... Perkin should appear . And therefore he was straight sent unto by the Duchess , to go for Ireland , according to the first designment . In Ireland he did arrive , at the town of Cork . When he was thither come , his own tale was , when ...
Página 188
... Perkin was smoked away . Yet would not the French king deliver him up to King Henry , as he was laboured to do , for his honour's sake , but warned him away and dismissed him . And Perkin , on his part , was as ready to be gone , doubt ...
... Perkin was smoked away . Yet would not the French king deliver him up to King Henry , as he was laboured to do , for his honour's sake , but warned him away and dismissed him . And Perkin , on his part , was as ready to be gone , doubt ...
Página 189
... Perkin Warbeck , it was not at that time come to light , but all the news ran upon the Duke of York ; that he had been entertained in Ireland , bought and sold in France , and was now plainly avowed , and in great honour in Flanders ...
... Perkin Warbeck , it was not at that time come to light , but all the news ran upon the Duke of York ; that he had been entertained in Ireland , bought and sold in France , and was now plainly avowed , and in great honour in Flanders ...
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Página 36 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Página 27 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always, that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 16 - No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of the own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 49 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Página 74 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Página 80 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 75 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air, where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music, than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 48 - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página 38 - THE joys of parents are secret, and so are their griefs and fears ; they cannot utter the one, nor they will not utter the other. Children sweeten labours, but they make misfortunes more bitter ; they increase the cares of life, but they mitigate the remembrance of death.
Página 41 - 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.