The British Prose Writers, Bind 1J. Sharpe, 1821 |
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Side 44
... committed . The Italians have an ungracious proverb , " Tanto buon che val niente ; " " So good , that he is good for nothing : " and one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in ...
... committed . The Italians have an ungracious proverb , " Tanto buon che val niente ; " " So good , that he is good for nothing : " and one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in ...
Side 73
... commit the parts of life , their lands , their goods , their children , their credit , some particular affair ; but to such as they make their counsellors they commit the whole by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and ...
... commit the parts of life , their lands , their goods , their children , their credit , some particular affair ; but to such as they make their counsellors they commit the whole by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and ...
Side 77
... committed , and the most judg- ment is shown , in the choice of individuals . It was truly said , " optimi consiliarii mortui : " " books will speak plain when counsellors blanch ; " therefore it is good to be conversant in them , spe ...
... committed , and the most judg- ment is shown , in the choice of individuals . It was truly said , " optimi consiliarii mortui : " " books will speak plain when counsellors blanch ; " therefore it is good to be conversant in them , spe ...
Side 79
... commit the beginnings of all great ac- tions to Argos with his hundred eyes , and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands ; first to watch , and then to speed ; for the helmet of Pluto , which maketh the politic man go invisible ...
... commit the beginnings of all great ac- tions to Argos with his hundred eyes , and the ends to Briareus with his hundred hands ; first to watch , and then to speed ; for the helmet of Pluto , which maketh the politic man go invisible ...
Side 96
... ) is the admonition of a friend . It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many ( especially of the greater sort ) do commit for want of a friend to tell them of them , 96 LORD BACON'S ESSAYS .
... ) is the admonition of a friend . It is a strange thing to behold what gross errors and extreme absurdities many ( especially of the greater sort ) do commit for want of a friend to tell them of them , 96 LORD BACON'S ESSAYS .
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Side 164 - And herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence toward God, and toward men.
Side 167 - 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.
Side 10 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
Side 21 - 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.
Side 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Side 47 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Side 64 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Side 11 - 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, 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 20 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Side 22 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth...
Side 98 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself ? A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg ; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.