Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 páginas |
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... Italy . Others , having in mind a public of less intellectual refinement , blended the familiar didactic ingredients of the classics with the unction of Christian homiletics , draping the whole in a specious rhetoric which passed for a ...
... Italy . Others , having in mind a public of less intellectual refinement , blended the familiar didactic ingredients of the classics with the unction of Christian homiletics , draping the whole in a specious rhetoric which passed for a ...
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... Italians , but even general advice on the conduct of life . The " Counsels Civil and Moral " of the experienced historian Guic- ciardini , composed for his family and circulated widely after his death , though in abbreviated and ...
... Italians , but even general advice on the conduct of life . The " Counsels Civil and Moral " of the experienced historian Guic- ciardini , composed for his family and circulated widely after his death , though in abbreviated and ...
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... Italian suit , Spanish hat , Milan sword , nods in- stead of legs , a few shrugs , as if some vermin were making a progress from one shoulder to another , and the like . This for their outside ; but their discourse makes them everywhere ...
... Italian suit , Spanish hat , Milan sword , nods in- stead of legs , a few shrugs , as if some vermin were making a progress from one shoulder to another , and the like . This for their outside ; but their discourse makes them everywhere ...
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... Italian and French , as their eyes are offended at what- soever hath any color of English ; and to be esteemed familiarly acquainted with other countries , will seem and think it an honor to have forgotten both the fashions and language ...
... Italian and French , as their eyes are offended at what- soever hath any color of English ; and to be esteemed familiarly acquainted with other countries , will seem and think it an honor to have forgotten both the fashions and language ...
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... Italian proverb , L'Amor e cieco e vede niente Ma non son cieche l'altre gente . Love is stark blind and sees nought done amiss , But other people are not blind ywiss . And though we should grant that which Plato attri- butes to old men ...
... Italian proverb , L'Amor e cieco e vede niente Ma non son cieche l'altre gente . Love is stark blind and sees nought done amiss , But other people are not blind ywiss . And though we should grant that which Plato attri- butes to old men ...
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actions affection Anatomy of Melancholy Aristotle behold better body Cæsar cause charity chimæra Christian commend common conceit condemn confess conscience corruption counsel death Democritus desire discourse diseases divinity dizzards doth dreams earth editions enemy Epistles essay eyes faith fall fancy fear folly fool fortune friends FYNES MORYSON give grave happy hath heaven honor humor judgment Julius Cæsar kind labor learning liberty live man's metempsychosis methinks mind Montaigne moral nature never Nicholas Breton noble observe opinion ourselves passion persons philosophers piece Plato Plutarch poet princes QUINTILIAN reason Religio Medici religion saith scholars Seneca SENECA THE ELDER sense Sir William Cornwallis sleep soever soul speak spirit SUETONIUS Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion true truth unto vices virtue wherein wisdom wise writing
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Página 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Página 3 - Truth, (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. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 5 - It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death. But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 104 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Página 104 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Página 292 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Página 2 - Deemonum,1 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the. mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Página 21 - For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...
Página 1 - TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief...
Página 18 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.