Bacon: His Writings, and His PhilosophyRichard Griffin, 1860 - 715 sider |
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Side 39
... men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question , When a man should marry ? - ' A ...
... men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question , When a man should marry ? - ' A ...
Side 41
... men ought to beware of this passion , which loseth not only other things , but itself . As for the other losses , the poet's relation doth well figure them ; that he that preferred Helena quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas . For ...
... men ought to beware of this passion , which loseth not only other things , but itself . As for the other losses , the poet's relation doth well figure them ; that he that preferred Helena quitted the gifts of Juno and Pallas . For ...
Side 43
... men's minds is taken are most potent . Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business . What first ? Boldness . * He would have been universally deemed fit for empire , if he had never reigned . † Vespasian was the only ...
... men's minds is taken are most potent . Wonderful like is the case of boldness in civil business . What first ? Boldness . * He would have been universally deemed fit for empire , if he had never reigned . † Vespasian was the only ...
Side 44
... men at weak times . Therefore we see it hath done wonders in popular states , but with senates and princes less ; and more ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into action than soon after , for bold- ness is an ill keeper of ...
... men at weak times . Therefore we see it hath done wonders in popular states , but with senates and princes less ; and more ever upon the first entrance of bold persons into action than soon after , for bold- ness is an ill keeper of ...
Side 47
... men from hopes to hopes , is one of the best antidotes against the poison of discontentments . And it is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding when it can hold men's hearts by hopes , when it cannot by satisfaction ; and ...
... men from hopes to hopes , is one of the best antidotes against the poison of discontentments . And it is a certain sign of a wise government and proceeding when it can hold men's hearts by hopes , when it cannot by satisfaction ; and ...
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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.