Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 páginas |
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... sometimes carried to a point of wanton extravagance , naturally resulted in the bewilderment of readers accustomed to classical standards of propriety . Too much admiration has been lavished in later generations upon a virtue in which ...
... sometimes carried to a point of wanton extravagance , naturally resulted in the bewilderment of readers accustomed to classical standards of propriety . Too much admiration has been lavished in later generations upon a virtue in which ...
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... sometimes looked upon as the moral deterioration of Montaigne's old age , is in reality but the index of a changed attitude toward his writing , the proof of an increasing literary honesty . In his earlier work , with the moral ...
... sometimes looked upon as the moral deterioration of Montaigne's old age , is in reality but the index of a changed attitude toward his writing , the proof of an increasing literary honesty . In his earlier work , with the moral ...
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... sometimes pub- lished for their general utility , with or without the writer's sanction , the motive which stimulated such publication being doubtless responsible also for the first appearance of Bacon's little volume ; and Bacon's vol ...
... sometimes pub- lished for their general utility , with or without the writer's sanction , the motive which stimulated such publication being doubtless responsible also for the first appearance of Bacon's little volume ; and Bacon's vol ...
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... sometimes appearing dominantly or even exclusively , sometimes combining in more or less harmo- nious fusion with the didactic . This variety of elements may be studied in Sir William Cornwallis , who deserves to be regarded as the ...
... sometimes appearing dominantly or even exclusively , sometimes combining in more or less harmo- nious fusion with the didactic . This variety of elements may be studied in Sir William Cornwallis , who deserves to be regarded as the ...
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... Sometimes the method is adapted by an enterprising mentor to the condition . of a less exalted group . One William Scott publishes an " Essay on Drapery " in which with piquant effect he sets down instructions for the shopkeeper how to ...
... Sometimes the method is adapted by an enterprising mentor to the condition . of a less exalted group . One William Scott publishes an " Essay on Drapery " in which with piquant effect he sets down instructions for the shopkeeper how to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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.