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... Italians make little difference between children and nephews , or near kinsfolk ; but , so they be of the lump , they care not , though they pass not through their own body . And , to say truth , in nature it is much a like 40 matter ...
... Italians make little difference between children and nephews , or near kinsfolk ; but , so they be of the lump , they care not , though they pass not through their own body . And , to say truth , in nature it is much a like 40 matter ...
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... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente : So good that he is 25 good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , that the ...
... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente : So good that he is 25 good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Machiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , that the ...
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... Italy ) , made between Ferdinando , king of Naples , Loren- zius Medices , and Ludovicus Sforsa , potentates , the one of Florence , the other of Milan . Neither is the opinion of some of the schoolmen to be received , that a war can ...
... Italy ) , made between Ferdinando , king of Naples , Loren- zius Medices , and Ludovicus Sforsa , potentates , the one of Florence , the other of Milan . Neither is the opinion of some of the schoolmen to be received , that a war can ...
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... Italy , and practice of France , in some kings ' times , hath introduced cabinet councils , a remedy worse than 60 the disease . As to secrecy ; princes are not bound to communi- cate all matters with all counsellors , but may extract ...
... Italy , and practice of France , in some kings ' times , hath introduced cabinet councils , a remedy worse than 60 the disease . As to secrecy ; princes are not bound to communi- cate all matters with all counsellors , but may extract ...
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... Italy : Terra potens armis atque ubere glebæ . Neither is the state ( which , for anything I know , is almost 130 peculiar to England , and hardly to be found anywhere else , except it be , perhaps , in Poland ) to be passed over ; I ...
... Italy : Terra potens armis atque ubere glebæ . Neither is the state ( which , for anything I know , is almost 130 peculiar to England , and hardly to be found anywhere else , except it be , perhaps , in Poland ) to be passed over ; I ...
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Sida 2 - ... (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.
Sida 185 - 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 184 - 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 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. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Sida 91 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Sida 2 - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Sida 166 - 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 2 - Doth any man doubt that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Sida 4 - 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...
Sida 186 - ... 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:...