Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volym 2 |
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... able to hold arguments , than of judgment , in discerning what is true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and want ...
... able to hold arguments , than of judgment , in discerning what is true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and want ...
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... able men , hath a great task , but that is ever good for the public . But he that plots to be the only figure amongst cyphers , is 65 the decay of a whole age . Honour hath three things in it ; the vantage ground to do good , the ...
... able men , hath a great task , but that is ever good for the public . But he that plots to be the only figure amongst cyphers , is 65 the decay of a whole age . Honour hath three things in it ; the vantage ground to do good , the ...
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... able intermission . : But let not a man trust his victory over his nature too far ; for nature will lay buried a great time , and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation . Like as it was with 35 Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a ...
... able intermission . : But let not a man trust his victory over his nature too far ; for nature will lay buried a great time , and yet revive upon the occasion or temptation . Like as it was with 35 Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a ...
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... able man . Fortune is to be honoured and respected , and it be but for her daughters , Confidence and Reputation . For those two 40 felicity breedeth ; the first within a man's self , the latter in others towards him . 45 All wise men ...
... able man . Fortune is to be honoured and respected , and it be but for her daughters , Confidence and Reputation . For those two 40 felicity breedeth ; the first within a man's self , the latter in others towards him . 45 All wise men ...
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... cities and towns of merchandise . For then they will be hardly able to colour other men's monies in the country , so as the licence of nine will not suck away the current rate of five . For no man will 40 [ Essay 41 Of Usury.
... cities and towns of merchandise . For then they will be hardly able to colour other men's monies in the country , so as the licence of nine will not suck away the current rate of five . For no man will 40 [ Essay 41 Of Usury.
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Sida 75 - 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 subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Sida 74 - 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.
Sida 75 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Sida 56 - 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...
Sida 76 - ... shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find dif-ferences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores: if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases:...
Sida 57 - 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.
Sida 51 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on. Therefore let use be preferred before uniformity ; except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost.
Sida 58 - The green hath two pleasures ; the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn ; the other, because it will give you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the Garden.
Sida 47 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Sida 44 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.