Bacon: His Writings, and His PhilosophyRichard Griffin, 1860 - 715 sider |
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Side 27
... sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath - work ever since is the illumination his spirit . First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos , then he breathed light into the face of man , and still he ...
... sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath - work ever since is the illumination his spirit . First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos , then he breathed light into the face of man , and still he ...
Side 30
... sense , as the perception and exhibi- tion of things in their less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever trite , or a repeater of what has been said by others ; he cannot quote a verse of Scripture without giving it an ...
... sense , as the perception and exhibi- tion of things in their less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever trite , or a repeater of what has been said by others ; he cannot quote a verse of Scripture without giving it an ...
Side 31
... sense logically conclusive ; but any one is nearly as much so as any other ; and at any rate no methods more purely logical are possible . An extended concatenation of perfect syllogisms upon any moral subject would be a mere string of ...
... sense logically conclusive ; but any one is nearly as much so as any other ; and at any rate no methods more purely logical are possible . An extended concatenation of perfect syllogisms upon any moral subject would be a mere string of ...
Side 32
... sense the man who sees is to him who is blind . The latter may have a tolerably correct notion of any thing he can touch and handle ; but the former alone can em- brace the grand panorama of nature . The question , however , still ...
... sense the man who sees is to him who is blind . The latter may have a tolerably correct notion of any thing he can touch and handle ; but the former alone can em- brace the grand panorama of nature . The question , however , still ...
Side 39
... sense , and not in that sometimes borne by the Latin invidia , hatred generally , or hatred arising merely from a wish to displace , in which it often occurs in other parts of Bacon's writings ) . It was first published in 1625. It ...
... sense , and not in that sometimes borne by the Latin invidia , hatred generally , or hatred arising merely from a wish to displace , in which it often occurs in other parts of Bacon's writings ) . It was first published in 1625. It ...
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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.