Bacon: His Writings and His PhilosophyC. Knight, 1846 |
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... Historical Works Section 1. Essays 2. Wisdom of the Ancients 3. Apophthegms , and other Moral Works 4. Theological Works 5. Historical Works Page 5 • 89 • 113 • 132 171 BACON , HIS WRITINGS , AND HIS PHILOSOPHY . • ( iii )
... Historical Works Section 1. Essays 2. Wisdom of the Ancients 3. Apophthegms , and other Moral Works 4. Theological Works 5. Historical Works Page 5 • 89 • 113 • 132 171 BACON , HIS WRITINGS , AND HIS PHILOSOPHY . • ( iii )
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... essay entitled ' Of Studies ; and undoubt- edly the works of a great writer can only be properly studied in their original form . But abridgements , compendiums , analyses , even of the works of the greatest writers , may still serve ...
... essay entitled ' Of Studies ; and undoubt- edly the works of a great writer can only be properly studied in their original form . But abridgements , compendiums , analyses , even of the works of the greatest writers , may still serve ...
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... essay , to be addressed to students - to the com- paratively few a large portion of whose time is occupied with books . If the illustrious author had been treating of the subject of reading in general , with the " great fa- culty , " as ...
... essay , to be addressed to students - to the com- paratively few a large portion of whose time is occupied with books . If the illustrious author had been treating of the subject of reading in general , with the " great fa- culty , " as ...
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... Essays , what he has written is very little known to the general reader . He 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 ...
... Essays , what he has written is very little known to the general reader . He 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 ...
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... ESSAYS . THE father of Francis Bacon was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Keeper of the Great Seal from the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558 till his death in 1579 ; his mother was Anne , the second of the four learned daughters of Sir Anthony ...
... ESSAYS . THE father of Francis Bacon was Sir Nicholas Bacon , Keeper of the Great Seal from the accession of Queen Elizabeth in 1558 till his death in 1579 ; his mother was Anne , the second of the four learned daughters of Sir Anthony ...
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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.