The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon |
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Side 28
... desire to excel in too many matters , out of levity and vain - glory , are ever envious ; for they cannot want work , it being impossible but many in some one of those things should surpass them ; which was the character of Adrian the ...
... desire to excel in too many matters , out of levity and vain - glory , are ever envious ; for they cannot want work , it being impossible but many in some one of those things should surpass them ; which was the character of Adrian the ...
Side 36
... desire to seek power , and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto Place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains : and it is sometimes base ; and by ...
... desire to seek power , and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others , and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto Place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains : and it is sometimes base ; and by ...
Side 44
... desire of power in excess , caused the angels to fall ; the de- sire of knowledge in excess , caused man to fall ; but in Charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The inclination of Goodness is ...
... desire of power in excess , caused the angels to fall ; the de- sire of knowledge in excess , caused man to fall ; but in Charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . The inclination of Goodness is ...
Side 69
... desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings ; who , being at the highest , want matter of desire , which makes their minds more languishing , and have many represen- tations of perils and shadows ...
... desire , and many things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of Kings ; who , being at the highest , want matter of desire , which makes their minds more languishing , and have many represen- tations of perils and shadows ...
Side 70
... desire that should marshal and put in order 1 all the rest , maketh any man's heart hard to find or - sound . Hence it comes likewise , that princes many times make themselves desire , and set their hearts upon toys : sometimes upon a ...
... desire that should marshal and put in order 1 all the rest , maketh any man's heart hard to find or - sound . Hence it comes likewise , that princes many times make themselves desire , and set their hearts upon toys : sometimes upon a ...
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Side 3 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost 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 always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Side 191 - 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.
Side 1 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. 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 64 - 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 4 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Side 174 - 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 163 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Side 5 - 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; Fear pre-occupateth it...
Side 38 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Side 93 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation...