Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin by William Willymott, ... In Two Volumes. ...Henry Parson, 1720 - 448 páginas |
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... likewise upon this Head , that it is good , that a Man's Face give his Tongue leave to speak . For the Revealing of a Man's Mind by the Tracts of his Coun- tenance is a great Defect , and a kind of Betraying ; and the more fo , for that ...
... likewise upon this Head , that it is good , that a Man's Face give his Tongue leave to speak . For the Revealing of a Man's Mind by the Tracts of his Coun- tenance is a great Defect , and a kind of Betraying ; and the more fo , for that ...
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... likewise be Partaker of God's Reft . Et converfus Deus , ut afpiceret opera , quæ fecerunt manus fuæ , vidit quod omnia effent bona nimis ; and then the Sabbath . In the Discharge of thy PLACE , fet before thee the best Examples ; for ...
... likewise be Partaker of God's Reft . Et converfus Deus , ut afpiceret opera , quæ fecerunt manus fuæ , vidit quod omnia effent bona nimis ; and then the Sabbath . In the Discharge of thy PLACE , fet before thee the best Examples ; for ...
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... likewise a numerous Clergy : For they bring nothing to the Stock . ' Tis the fame Thing alfo , when more are bred Scholars than Civil Preferments can take off . Ir is likewife to be remembred , that forafmuch as all Encrease of a State ...
... likewise a numerous Clergy : For they bring nothing to the Stock . ' Tis the fame Thing alfo , when more are bred Scholars than Civil Preferments can take off . Ir is likewife to be remembred , that forafmuch as all Encrease of a State ...
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... likewise by that Speech : Si vixero , non opus erit am- plius Romano Imperio militibus . For this was a Speech of Defpondency for the Soldiers : And many the like . Surely it is of Concernment to Princes , in tender Matters and ticklish ...
... likewise by that Speech : Si vixero , non opus erit am- plius Romano Imperio militibus . For this was a Speech of Defpondency for the Soldiers : And many the like . Surely it is of Concernment to Princes , in tender Matters and ticklish ...
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... LIKEWISE Upon his Removes from one Place to another , let him procure Letters of Recommendation to fome Perfon of Quality refiding in the Place whither whither he removes ; that he may use his Favour FOREIGN PARTS . 107.
... LIKEWISE Upon his Removes from one Place to another , let him procure Letters of Recommendation to fome Perfon of Quality refiding in the Place whither whither he removes ; that he may use his Favour FOREIGN PARTS . 107.
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Página 5 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it. For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly, and not upon the feet.
Página 3 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's 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 168 - So as there is as much difference between the counsel that a friend giveth and that a man giveth himself as there is between the counsel of a friend and of a flatterer. For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self, and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend.
Página 159 - Magna civitas, magna solitudo; because in a great town friends are scattered, so that there is not that fellowship for the most part which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude to want true friends, without which the world is but a wilderness...
Página 318 - Nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies: like as diseases of the body may have appropriate exercises. 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.
Página 33 - The best composition and temperature is, to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit ; dissimulation in seasonable use ; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Página 6 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other.
Página 21 - Certainly in taking revenge a man is but even with his enemy ; but in passing it over he is superior, for it is a prince's part to pardon. And Solomon, I am sure, saith : It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence.
Página 82 - Concerning the materials of seditions, it is a thing well to be considered ; for the surest way to prevent seditions (if the times do bear it), is to take away the matter of them ; for if there be fuel prepared, it is hard to tell whence the spark shall come that shall set it on fire.
Página 133 - The ripeness or unripeness of the occasion (as we said) must ever be well weighed; and generally it is good to commit the beginnings of all great actions to Argus, with his hundred eyes; and the ends to Briareus, with his hundred hands, — first to watch, and then to speed.