Bacon, His Writings and His PhilosophyGriffin Bohn, 1862 - 715 páginas |
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... stands , therefore , exactly in the position which seems to make it expedient that an account of his works should be given , and so much of them as can be made generally interest- ing produced for popular perusal , in such a form as the ...
... stands , therefore , exactly in the position which seems to make it expedient that an account of his works should be given , and so much of them as can be made generally interest- ing produced for popular perusal , in such a form as the ...
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... stand in Bacon's last and most com- * Two Italian translations bearing this title had already ap- peared , one in 1618 ( by Mr. Toby Matthew ) , the other in 1621 . A French translation had also been published at London in 1619 , under ...
... stand in Bacon's last and most com- * Two Italian translations bearing this title had already ap- peared , one in 1618 ( by Mr. Toby Matthew ) , the other in 1621 . A French translation had also been published at London in 1619 , under ...
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... stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same Truth is a naked ...
... stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell : this same Truth is a naked ...
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... stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground ...
... stand upon the shore , and to see ships tossed upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle , and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage - ground ...
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... stand- ing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfal , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . .... In the dis- charge of thy place set before thee the best examples ; for imita- tion is a globe of precepts ; and ...
... stand- ing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfal , or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . .... In the dis- charge of thy place set before thee the best examples ; for imita- tion is a globe of precepts ; and ...
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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 16 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.
Página 6 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
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 26 - 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, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting.
Página 27 - 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 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 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 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
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.