The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volumen1W. Ball, 1838 |
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... cause depending in the chancery between this Awbrey and Sir William Bronker , Awbrey feeling some hard measure , was advised to give the lord chancellor £ 100 , the which he delivered to his counsel Sir George Hastings , and he to the ...
... cause depending in the chancery between this Awbrey and Sir William Bronker , Awbrey feeling some hard measure , was advised to give the lord chancellor £ 100 , the which he delivered to his counsel Sir George Hastings , and he to the ...
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... cause of the slow progress of the sciences , ) and finishes what he had to offer concerning the signs and causes of error . He enumerates the three kinds of confutations , by which he hoped to pull down the old structure : viz . 1. the ...
... cause of the slow progress of the sciences , ) and finishes what he had to offer concerning the signs and causes of error . He enumerates the three kinds of confutations , by which he hoped to pull down the old structure : viz . 1. the ...
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... causes should make a more meriting and substantial virtue . And as for that devout dependence upon God , who is the first cause : censure of Solomon , concerning the excess of writ- First , it is good to ask the question which Job asked ...
... causes should make a more meriting and substantial virtue . And as for that devout dependence upon God , who is the first cause : censure of Solomon , concerning the excess of writ- First , it is good to ask the question which Job asked ...
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... cause of induration , but respective to clay : fire is the cause of colliquation , but respective to wax . But fire is no constant cause either of indu- ration or colliquation ; so then the physical causes are but the efficient and the ...
... cause of induration , but respective to clay : fire is the cause of colliquation , but respective to wax . But fire is no constant cause either of indu- ration or colliquation ; so then the physical causes are but the efficient and the ...
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... causes of them , and not as to the forms . For example ; if the cause of whiteness in snow or froth be inquired , and it be rendered thus ; that the subtile intermixture of air and water is the cause , it is well rendered ; but ...
... causes of them , and not as to the forms . For example ; if the cause of whiteness in snow or froth be inquired , and it be rendered thus ; that the subtile intermixture of air and water is the cause , it is well rendered ; but ...
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Página 299 - 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 10 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 286 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing, to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 279 - For it is most true that a natural and secret hatred and aversation towards society in any man, hath somewhat of the savage beast ; but it is most untrue that it should have any character at all of the divine nature ; except it proceed, not out of a pleasure in solitude, but out of a love and desire to sequester a man's self for a higher conversation...
Página 281 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Página 262 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 294 - Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn; therefore, all deformed persons are extreme bold; first, as in their own defence, as being exposed to scorn, but in process of time by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others, that they may have somewhat, to repay.
Página 271 - 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 xxvii - My conceit of his person was never increased towards 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 280 - 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; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen...