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... turn so as to ensure getting a hearing , trying one experiment after another , and giving proof of mastery in each . Just as in his philosophical works , he writes sometimes with an air of modesty , and as one who is driven in his own ...
... turn so as to ensure getting a hearing , trying one experiment after another , and giving proof of mastery in each . Just as in his philosophical works , he writes sometimes with an air of modesty , and as one who is driven in his own ...
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Francis Bacon Samuel Harvey Reynolds. sentence in its turn comes upon the reader as a surprise . The plan evolves itself as it proceeds , and it is as forming part of the plan that each sentence , excellent in itself , derives new ...
Francis Bacon Samuel Harvey Reynolds. sentence in its turn comes upon the reader as a surprise . The plan evolves itself as it proceeds , and it is as forming part of the plan that each sentence , excellent in itself , derives new ...
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... turn him aside from his efforts after advance- ment in life . His Essay On Friendship is written in a warmer strain , not wanting in enthusiasm , and with some grand rhetorical passages . But when we look closely at its contents we see ...
... turn him aside from his efforts after advance- ment in life . His Essay On Friendship is written in a warmer strain , not wanting in enthusiasm , and with some grand rhetorical passages . But when we look closely at its contents we see ...
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... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged , even by quite clearly - mendacium quod a mente imbibitur , nempe ejus generis de quo ante diximus ...
... turn upon the poles of truth . To pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business ; it will be acknowledged , even by quite clearly - mendacium quod a mente imbibitur , nempe ejus generis de quo ante diximus ...
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... turn thee behind me . Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking part of both , and wittyi ...
... turn thee behind me . Peace is not the matter , but following and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking part of both , and wittyi ...
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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
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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.