Bacon: His Writings and His PhilosophyC. Knight, 1846 |
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... hath been pleased to impart unto myself ) , he first fell into the dislike of the philosophy of Aristotle ; not for the worthlessness of the author , to whom he would ever ascribe all high attri- butes , but for the unfruitfulness of ...
... hath been pleased to impart unto myself ) , he first fell into the dislike of the philosophy of Aristotle ; not for the worthlessness of the author , to whom he would ever ascribe all high attri- butes , but for the unfruitfulness of ...
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... hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him . Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre - occupateth it ; Nay we read , after Otho the Emperor had slain ...
... hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him . Revenge triumphs over death ; love slights it ; honour aspireth to it ; grief flieth to it ; fear pre - occupateth it ; Nay we read , after Otho the Emperor had slain ...
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... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also - that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy . ' Extinctus amabitur idem . ' † ; The Third Essay , Of Unity in Religion , ' is an en- largement of one ...
... hath obtained worthy ends and expectations . Death hath this also - that it openeth the gate to good fame , and extinguisheth envy . ' Extinctus amabitur idem . ' † ; The Third Essay , Of Unity in Religion , ' is an en- largement of one ...
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... hath wife and children hath given hostages to for- tune , for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried ...
... hath wife and children hath given hostages to for- tune , for they are impediments to great enterprises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried ...
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... amongst all the great and worthy persons ( whereof the memory remaineth , either ancient or recent ) there is not one * Envy keeps no holidays . that hath been transported to the mad degree of love 40 BACON'S WORKS .
... amongst all the great and worthy persons ( whereof the memory remaineth , either ancient or recent ) there is not one * Envy keeps no holidays . that hath been transported to the mad degree of love 40 BACON'S WORKS .
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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.