Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volumen1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... taken to have been towards the close of the year 1576 . This computation agrees very well with what follows in Rawley's account : " After he had passed the circle of the liberal arts , his father thought fit to frame and mould him for ...
... taken to have been towards the close of the year 1576 . This computation agrees very well with what follows in Rawley's account : " After he had passed the circle of the liberal arts , his father thought fit to frame and mould him for ...
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... taken out of men's minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valua- tions , 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 ...
... taken out of men's minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valua- tions , 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 ...
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... taken from him , or which makes any likeness be- tween him and it . He has thrown it forth as the tissue is thrown forth by the loom ; a moral saying is more like the grape , that is ever racy of the soil where it grew . Thus , a ...
... taken from him , or which makes any likeness be- tween him and it . He has thrown it forth as the tissue is thrown forth by the loom ; a moral saying is more like the grape , that is ever racy of the soil where it grew . Thus , a ...
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... taken , combination , power , great counsel , then is the virtue of a judge seen , to make inequality equal , that he may plant his judgment as upon an even ground . Qui fortiter emungit , elicit sanguinem ; * and where the wine - press ...
... taken , combination , power , great counsel , then is the virtue of a judge seen , to make inequality equal , that he may plant his judgment as upon an even ground . Qui fortiter emungit , elicit sanguinem ; * and where the wine - press ...
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... taken Metis to wife , and , perceiving that she was with child , to have devoured her , whence himself conceiving brought forth Pallas armed out of his head . Truly I think there was never dream ( 30 different to the course of ...
... taken Metis to wife , and , perceiving that she was with child , to have devoured her , whence himself conceiving brought forth Pallas armed out of his head . Truly I think there was never dream ( 30 different to the course of ...
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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...