Essays moral, economical and politicalJ. Sharpe, 1819 - 196 páginas |
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... fortune and merit both have been emi- nent ; and you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
... fortune and merit both have been emi- nent ; and you have planted things that are like to last . I do now publish my Essays ; which of all my other works , have been most current ; for that , as it seems , they come home to men's ...
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... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection ...
... fortune ; for they are impediments to great enter- prises , either of virtue or mischief . Certainly the best works , and of greatest merit for the public , have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which , both in affection ...
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... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ; for to know much of other men's matters cannot be ... fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is a ...
... fortune . A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ; for to know much of other men's matters cannot be ... fortunes of others ; neither can he that mindeth but his own business find much matter for envy ; for envy is a ...
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... fortunes , and pointeth at them , and cometh oftener into their remem- brance , and incurreth likewise more into the ... fortune continueth long ; for by that time , though their virtue be the same , yet it hath not the same lustre , for ...
... fortunes , and pointeth at them , and cometh oftener into their remem- brance , and incurreth likewise more into the ... fortune continueth long ; for by that time , though their virtue be the same , yet it hath not the same lustre , for ...
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... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner ; being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or com- petition : whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to ...
... fortunes in an insolent and proud manner ; being never well but while they are showing how great they are , either by outward pomp , or by triumphing over all opposition or com- petition : whereas wise men will rather do sacrifice to ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsop affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar better beware body bold Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero cometh commend commonly corrupt counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus especially factions fair fame favour fear fit head flowers fore fortune FRANCIS BACON Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath heart honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind king labour less likewise Lucullus maketh man's matter means men's mind motion nature never observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch poets Pompey profanum religion remedy rest riches Romans saith secret sect seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimus Severus servants shew side soldiers sometimes sort speak speech sure Tacitus things thou thought Tiberius tion true unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
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Página 165 - 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, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave ; logic and rhetoric, able to contend...
Página 11 - It is a pleasure to 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 of 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 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Página 89 - A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body ; and it is not much otherwise in the mind.
Página 144 - Deformed persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, " void of natural affection :" and so they have their revenge of nature.
Página 10 - Doth any man doubt that, if there were taken out of men's A minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Página 38 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will' be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Página 22 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. 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 115 - PLANTATIONS are amongst ancient, primitive, and heroical works. When the world was young, it begat more children ; but now it is old, it begets fewer ; for I may justly account new plantations to be the children of former kingdoms. I like a plantation in a pure soil ; that is, where people are not displanted to the end to plant in others ; for else it is rather an extirpation than a plantation.
Página 141 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time ; but that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. : for there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages ; and yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old, and imaginations stream into their minds better, and, as it were, more divinely.
Página 166 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit 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...