The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 páginas |
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... true Greatness of Kingdoms and Es- tates 1612 ; enlarged 1625 . 154 30. Of Regimen of Health 1597 ; enlarged 1612 ; again 1625 166 31. Of Suspicion .1625 ; 168 NO . 32. Of Discourse PAGE .1597 ; slightly enlarged vi CONTENTS .
... true Greatness of Kingdoms and Es- tates 1612 ; enlarged 1625 . 154 30. Of Regimen of Health 1597 ; enlarged 1612 ; again 1625 166 31. Of Suspicion .1625 ; 168 NO . 32. Of Discourse PAGE .1597 ; slightly enlarged vi CONTENTS .
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... true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published , as that of Advancement of Learning , that of Henry VII . , that of the Essays , being retractate and made more perfect , well translated into Latin by ...
... true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published , as that of Advancement of Learning , that of Henry VII . , that of the Essays , being retractate and made more perfect , well translated into Latin by ...
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... the latter , the Viscount of St. Albans . ' 66 6 It is true , the design of this book was instruction in natural and civil matters , either couched by the ancients under those fictions , or rather made to seem to xxiv PREFACE .
... the latter , the Viscount of St. Albans . ' 66 6 It is true , the design of this book was instruction in natural and civil matters , either couched by the ancients under those fictions , or rather made to seem to xxiv PREFACE .
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... true pioneer in that mine of truth which lies so deep . " He applied to the gov- ernment for a provision which his father's interest would easily have secured him , and by which he might dispense with a profession . The Queen must have ...
... true pioneer in that mine of truth which lies so deep . " He applied to the gov- ernment for a provision which his father's interest would easily have secured him , and by which he might dispense with a profession . The Queen must have ...
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... true philo- sophy ; Newton had studied him so closely that he adopted even his phraseology ; Voltaire and D'Alem- bert have rendered him popular in France . The modern philosophers of all Europe regard him reve- rentially as the father ...
... true philo- sophy ; Newton had studied him so closely that he adopted even his phraseology ; Voltaire and D'Alem- bert have rendered him popular in France . The modern philosophers of all Europe regard him reve- rentially as the father ...
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Página 23 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Página 227 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business ; for expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 205 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Página 31 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 55 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 228 - 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.
Página 66 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 50 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in, and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
Página 52 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Página 138 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...