The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral, of Francis Bacon ... |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 42
Page xii
... authority to speak ; as one who has been behind the scenes in the great theatre of the world , and who now comes forward to give others the result of his experience , to tell them the motives from which men commonly act , and the kind ...
... authority to speak ; as one who has been behind the scenes in the great theatre of the world , and who now comes forward to give others the result of his experience , to tell them the motives from which men commonly act , and the kind ...
Page xv
... authority of their several varying copies . The text followed in the present edition is that of the volume presented by Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham , to whom the book is dedicated . It is likely that this would have been a copy ...
... authority of their several varying copies . The text followed in the present edition is that of the volume presented by Bacon to the Duke of Buckingham , to whom the book is dedicated . It is likely that this would have been a copy ...
Page xvii
... authority , sometimes to illustrate the different senses in which Bacon's writings were interpreted in his own day . It contains 38 Essays , omitting Of Religion and Of Super- stition , and making up the same number as the edition of ...
... authority , sometimes to illustrate the different senses in which Bacon's writings were interpreted in his own day . It contains 38 Essays , omitting Of Religion and Of Super- stition , and making up the same number as the edition of ...
Page xxx
... authority ' pulchrorum autumnus pulcher . ' It should be pulchrorum etiam autumnus pulcher , the omitted word destroying the argument which the mutilated version supports . Again , in Essay 42 , he speaks of ' such as take too high a ...
... authority ' pulchrorum autumnus pulcher . ' It should be pulchrorum etiam autumnus pulcher , the omitted word destroying the argument which the mutilated version supports . Again , in Essay 42 , he speaks of ' such as take too high a ...
Page 30
... authority of the civil ruler , and their assertion of the equality of all men under an assumed Divine illumination , explain and bear out Bacon's reference to them in the text . That he had especially in his mind the authors of the ...
... authority of the civil ruler , and their assertion of the equality of all men under an assumed Divine illumination , explain and bear out Bacon's reference to them in the text . That he had especially in his mind the authors of the ...
Contents
128 | |
153 | |
167 | |
170 | |
173 | |
179 | |
198 | |
201 | |
50 | |
51 | |
53 | |
56 | |
62 | |
67 | |
72 | |
77 | |
81 | |
82 | |
85 | |
88 | |
89 | |
94 | |
97 | |
108 | |
109 | |
111 | |
119 | |
122 | |
227 | |
235 | |
241 | |
242 | |
246 | |
253 | |
254 | |
264 | |
272 | |
287 | |
299 | |
308 | |
310 | |
321 | |
330 | |
345 | |
399 | |
403 | |
404 | |
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Advancement of Learning atheism atque autem Bacon Ben Jonson body certainly chap Cicero commonly Conf counsel court danger Dion Cassius discourse Discourses on Livy doth edition enim envy Epicurus etiam factions favour fortune Galba hath Henry Henry VII Hist honour judge judgment King Latin Latin gives Letters maketh man's matter means men's mind Montaigne nature never nihil note on Essay NOTES AND ILLUSTRATIONS opinion passage persons Plutarch princes quae quam quod reference religion saith Salomon says Sejanus Seneca sense sort speak speech Suetonius sunt Tacitus tamen Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius trans true unto usury Vespasian Vide virtue Vulgate whereof wise words γὰρ δὲ εἰς ἐν ἐπὶ καὶ μὲν μὴ οἱ περὶ τὰ τε τὴν τῆς τὸ τὸν τοῦ τῶν
Popular passages
Page 38 - 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.
Page 342 - 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.
Page 343 - 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 school-men, for they are Cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another,...
Page 6 - A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. 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?
Page 7 - 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,1 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 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 187 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark but true : Cor ne edito, Eat not the heart. Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Page 97 - 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.
Page 8 - ... in coin 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. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious...
Page 173 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 112 - ... must needs fly to Providence and Deity. Nay, even that school which is most accused of atheism doth most demonstrate religion ; that is, the school of Leucippus and Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.