Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, Volumen6Longman, 1858 |
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... Nature Of Nobility · Of Seditions and Troubles Of Atheism · Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel Of Delays Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's self Of Innovations Of Dispatch - Of Seeming Wise Of Friendship - Of Expense Of the ...
... Nature Of Nobility · Of Seditions and Troubles Of Atheism · Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel Of Delays Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's self Of Innovations Of Dispatch - Of Seeming Wise Of Friendship - Of Expense Of the ...
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... nature conspired with the faults of his conception of history to taint his work with lukewarm censure of falsehood and ex- tortion , with a cool display of the expedients of cunning , and with too systematic a representation of the ...
... nature conspired with the faults of his conception of history to taint his work with lukewarm censure of falsehood and ex- tortion , with a cool display of the expedients of cunning , and with too systematic a representation of the ...
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... nature in coveting to accu- mulate treasure , and represents it as procuring him the hatred of his people to such a degree that his state was in- secure even in the height of his felicity . In the matter of Brittany , Bacon represents ...
... nature in coveting to accu- mulate treasure , and represents it as procuring him the hatred of his people to such a degree that his state was in- secure even in the height of his felicity . In the matter of Brittany , Bacon represents ...
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... nature , will be affected in the same way when he sees them in a book ; that if he be not , it is for want not of epithets and exclamations and notes of admiration in the history , but of moral sensibility in himself , and he should be ...
... nature , will be affected in the same way when he sees them in a book ; that if he be not , it is for want not of epithets and exclamations and notes of admiration in the history , but of moral sensibility in himself , and he should be ...
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... nature he coveted to accumulate treasure , which the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of · LAC their counsellors and ...
... nature he coveted to accumulate treasure , which the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of · LAC their counsellors and ...
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actions adeo ancient apud atheism atque Augustus Cæsar autem Bacon Bernard André better Brittaine Brittany Cæsar commonly counsel counsellors danger death doth Duke Duke of York Earl ejus England enim envy erat esset etiam fable favour fere Flanders fortune France French King fuisse fuit hæc hand hath haue honour house of York hujusmodi illa illis illud instar Itaque Jupiter kind King Henry King's kingdom licet likewise Lord magis maketh man's marriage matter Maximilian means mind nature Neque nihil noble omnia Parliament peace Perkin persons Polydore Polydore Vergil Pompey princes Proserpina quæ quam Queen quod reign religion rerum saith shew sibi sive Spain speech suæ sunt Tacitus tamen tanquam tantum things thought tion translation treaty true unto usury veluti verum virtue vpon whereof wise words
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Página 497 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Página 386 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Página 575 - 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.
Página 379 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Página 434 - 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.
Página 413 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Página 443 - A man cannot speak to his son but as a father; to his wife but as a husband; to his enemy but upon terms: whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Página 438 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Página 413 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.
Página 498 - ... be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.