Bacon: His Writings, and His PhilosophyRichard Griffin, 1860 - 715 sider |
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Side 17
... seemeth the world will not , by the often print- ing of the former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after ...
... seemeth the world will not , by the often print- ing of the former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after ...
Side 21
... seemeth the world will not , by the often print- ing of the former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after ...
... seemeth the world will not , by the often print- ing of the former . " These last words may lead us to suspect that Jaggard's edition of 1606 ( supposed to be pirated ) had not been the only re - impression of the former Essays after ...
Side 36
... seemeth not to be without mystery , nay , and to have some approach to the state of a Christian : That Hercules , when he went to unbind Prometheus ( by whom human nature is represented ) , sailed the length of the great ocean in an ...
... seemeth not to be without mystery , nay , and to have some approach to the state of a Christian : That Hercules , when he went to unbind Prometheus ( by whom human nature is represented ) , sailed the length of the great ocean in an ...
Side 40
... seemeth to be acknowledged in the act of envy an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye . Nay , some have been so curious as to note , that the times when the stroke or percus- sion of an envious eye doth most hurt , are , when the party ...
... seemeth to be acknowledged in the act of envy an ejaculation or irradiation of the eye . Nay , some have been so curious as to note , that the times when the stroke or percus- sion of an envious eye doth most hurt , are , when the party ...
Side 50
... seemeth incredible unto those that know not the principle- That the mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by pro- fiting in small things than by standing at a stay in great . We see also that kings that have been fortunate ...
... seemeth incredible unto those that know not the principle- That the mind of man is more cheered and refreshed by pro- fiting in small things than by standing at a stay in great . We see also that kings that have been fortunate ...
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Side 34 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Side 32 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Side 23 - 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.
Side 45 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Side 70 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Side 22 - Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Side 29 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it...
Side 76 - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Side 71 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music), than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Side 48 - Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate.