The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Bind 2Carey, 1841 |
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... particular inquiry made of them . It is cer- tain , that an egg was found , having lain many years in the bottom of a moat , where the earth had somewhat overgrown it ; and this egg was come to the hardness of a stone , and had the ...
... particular inquiry made of them . It is cer- tain , that an egg was found , having lain many years in the bottom of a moat , where the earth had somewhat overgrown it ; and this egg was come to the hardness of a stone , and had the ...
Side 61
... particular eight , greater strength , and , it may be , to have grown in general three . on to bear flowers . By this means you may have , as it seemeth , roses set in the midst of a pool , be- ing supported with some stay ; which is ...
... particular eight , greater strength , and , it may be , to have grown in general three . on to bear flowers . By this means you may have , as it seemeth , roses set in the midst of a pool , be- ing supported with some stay ; which is ...
Side 127
... particular persons by odours , hath been reported to be in perfumed gloves , or the like : and it is like , they mingle the poison that is deadly , which some smells that are sweet , which also maketh it the sooner re- ceived . Plagues ...
... particular persons by odours , hath been reported to be in perfumed gloves , or the like : and it is like , they mingle the poison that is deadly , which some smells that are sweet , which also maketh it the sooner re- ceived . Plagues ...
Side 132
... particular properties , there is no credit to be given to them . But it is manifest , that light , above all things , excelleth in comforting the spirits of men : and it is very probable , that light varied doth the same effect , with ...
... particular properties , there is no credit to be given to them . But it is manifest , that light , above all things , excelleth in comforting the spirits of men : and it is very probable , that light varied doth the same effect , with ...
Side 138
... particular affection and appetite , and doth follow and pursue the same in small mo- ments , and when it is free and delivered from more general and common respects ; yet , never- theless , when there is question or case for sus ...
... particular affection and appetite , and doth follow and pursue the same in small mo- ments , and when it is free and delivered from more general and common respects ; yet , never- theless , when there is question or case for sus ...
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Side 398 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Side 427 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Side 380 - 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...
Side 389 - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech, but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Side 380 - To conclude therefore : let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress, or proficience in both...
Side 408 - I for my part do confess, that in revolving the Scriptures I could never find any such thing : but that God had left the like liberty to the church government, as he had done to the civil government ; to be varied according to time, and place, and accidents, which nevertheless his high and divine providence doth order and dispose.
Side 471 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Side 112 - ... we have set it down as a law to ourselves, to examine things to the bottom ; and not to receive upon credit, or reject upon improbabilities, until there hath passed a due examination. This is, the sympathy of individuals ; for as there is a sympathy of species, so (it may be) there is a sympathy of individuals : that is, that in things, or the parts of things, that have been once contiguous or entire, 1 Compare Porta, Nat.
Side 95 - IT is certain, that all bodies whatsoever, though they have no sense, yet they have perception : for when one body is applied to another, there is a kind of election to embrace that which is agreeable, and to exclude or expel that which is ingrate...
Side 393 - Wherefore, if we labour in thy works with the sweat of our brows, thou wilt make us partakers of thy vision and thy Sabbath.