Critical and Historical Essays: Lord Bacon. Sir William Temple. Gladstone on church and stateB. Tauchnitz jun., 1850 |
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... once a favourite at Court and popular with the multitude . If any man could have succeeded in this attempt , a man of talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been ...
... once a favourite at Court and popular with the multitude . If any man could have succeeded in this attempt , a man of talents so rare , of judgment so prematurely ripe , of temper so calm , and of manners so plausible , might have been ...
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... once the ornament of the palace and the idol of the city ; who was the common pa- tron of men of letters and of men of the sword ; who was the common refuge of the persecuted Catholic and of the perse- cuted Puritan . The calm prudence ...
... once the ornament of the palace and the idol of the city ; who was the common pa- tron of men of letters and of men of the sword ; who was the common refuge of the persecuted Catholic and of the perse- cuted Puritan . The calm prudence ...
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... once established the literary reputation of its author . But , though Bacon's reputation rose , his fortunes were still depressed . He was in great pecuniary difficulties ; and , on one occasion , was ar- rested in the street at the ...
... once established the literary reputation of its author . But , though Bacon's reputation rose , his fortunes were still depressed . He was in great pecuniary difficulties ; and , on one occasion , was ar- rested in the street at the ...
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... once he had determined to act against his friend , knowing himself to be suspected , he acted with more zeal than would have been necessary or justifiable if he had been employed against a stranger . He exerted his professional talents ...
... once he had determined to act against his friend , knowing himself to be suspected , he acted with more zeal than would have been necessary or justifiable if he had been employed against a stranger . He exerted his professional talents ...
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... Once , and but once , this course of prosperity was for a moment interrupted . It should seem that even Bacon's brain was not strong enough to bear without some discomposure the inebriating effect of so much good fortune . For some time ...
... Once , and but once , this course of prosperity was for a moment interrupted . It should seem that even Bacon's brain was not strong enough to bear without some discomposure the inebriating effect of so much good fortune . For some time ...
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absurd admiration admit alliance ancient apostolical apostolical succession appeared Augmentis Bacon battle of Delium believe Bishop body Buckingham Cabinet Catholic Chancellor character Charles Christian Church of England Cicero conduct considered Council Court Declaration of Indulgence declared defence doctrines eminent employed English Essays Essex evil favour favourite feel France Francis Bacon Gladstone Gladstone's Grand Pensionary Halifax honour House of Commons human importance induction intellect Ireland judge King Lady learning letters Long Parliament Lord Macaulay mankind means ment mind Ministers Montagu Moor Park moral nation nature never Novum Organum object opinion Parliament party persecution person philosophy Plato political Prince principles produced profess propagate proposition Protestant Queen question reason religion religious respect scarcely seems Shaftesbury society Socinian spirit statesman talents temper Temple Temple's thing thought tion truth unity whole Witt
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Página 223 - A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pigmy body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. A daring pilot in extremity; Pleased with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms; but, for a calm unfit, Would steer too nigh the sands to boast his wit.
Página 90 - My conceit of his Person was never increased toward him by his place or honours. But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many Ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength : for Greatness he could not want.
Página 143 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart bv the pleasure of the eye.
Página 91 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Página 142 - 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 142 - 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 142 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 146 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures...
Página 255 - ... remarkable analogy to his mode of thinking, and indeed exercises great influence on his mode of thinking. His rhetoric, though often good of its kind, darkens and perplexes the logic which it should illustrate. Half his acuteness and diligence, with a barren imagination and a scanty vocabulary, would have saved him from almost all his mistakes. He has one gift most dangerous to a speculator, — a vast command of a kind of language, grave and majestic, but of vague and uncertain import, — of...
Página 45 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.