Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volumen1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... body a wound or solution of continuity is worse than a corrupt humour , so in the spiritual . So that nothing doth so much keep men out of the church , and drive men out of the church , as breach of unity ; and therefore whensoever it ...
... body a wound or solution of continuity is worse than a corrupt humour , so in the spiritual . So that nothing doth so much keep men out of the church , and drive men out of the church , as breach of unity ; and therefore whensoever it ...
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... body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body men that undertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments , but want the grounds of science , and therefore cannot hold out . Nay , you shall see a bold ...
... body , so are there mountebanks for the politic body men that undertake great cures , and perhaps have been lucky in two or three experiments , but want the grounds of science , and therefore cannot hold out . Nay , you shall see a bold ...
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... body like to humours in the natural , which are apt to gather a preternatural heat , * Hence griping avarice , extortion , fraud , Unblushing perjury had spread abroad , Crushing the wretched people in their course , And leaving civil ...
... body like to humours in the natural , which are apt to gather a preternatural heat , * Hence griping avarice , extortion , fraud , Unblushing perjury had spread abroad , Crushing the wretched people in their course , And leaving civil ...
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... body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit , he is a base and ignoble creature . It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature . For take an example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will ...
... body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his spirit , he is a base and ignoble creature . It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of human nature . For take an example of a dog , and mark what a generosity and courage he will ...
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... body that hath depth and bulk . Some are so close and reserved as they will not show their wares but by a dark light , and seem always to keep back somewhat ; and when they know within themselves they speak of that they do not well know ...
... body that hath depth and bulk . Some are so close and reserved as they will not show their wares but by a dark light , and seem always to keep back somewhat ; and when they know within themselves they speak of that they do not well know ...
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Página 78 - 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 49 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Página 81 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised ' than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Página 36 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, 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 and means have married and endowed the public.
Página 37 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
Página 37 - Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Página 60 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Página 47 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ; for, take an example of a dog and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God or melior natura...
Página 34 - Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, (much too high for a heathen,) " It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God :" — " Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.
Página 46 - But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...