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Sida xv
... things requiring ages for their accomplishment . I have thought it best , then , to have all of them translated into Latin and divided into volumes . The first volume consists of the books concerning the Advancement of Learning ' ; and ...
... things requiring ages for their accomplishment . I have thought it best , then , to have all of them translated into Latin and divided into volumes . The first volume consists of the books concerning the Advancement of Learning ' ; and ...
Sida xvi
... Things . But these dis- courses will be both increased in number and much enlarged in the treatment . The same volume will contain also my little book on the Wisdom of the Ancients . And this volume is ( as I said ) interposed , not ...
... Things . But these dis- courses will be both increased in number and much enlarged in the treatment . The same volume will contain also my little book on the Wisdom of the Ancients . And this volume is ( as I said ) interposed , not ...
Sida xvii
... things . On this ground he tells the Prince he can commend them : he has endeavoured to make them , not vulgar , but of a nature whereof a man shall find much in experience , little in books , so as they are neither repetitions nor ...
... things . On this ground he tells the Prince he can commend them : he has endeavoured to make them , not vulgar , but of a nature whereof a man shall find much in experience , little in books , so as they are neither repetitions nor ...
Sida xix
... thing like pathos , of the value of a friend in helping one to clear one's thoughts , and of his own friendless and ... things . No course of invention , he said , can be satisfactory unless it be carried on in writing.1 But it was not ...
... thing like pathos , of the value of a friend in helping one to clear one's thoughts , and of his own friendless and ... things . No course of invention , he said , can be satisfactory unless it be carried on in writing.1 But it was not ...
Sida xx
... things Bacon did not think it amiss to take counsel with paper.1 Hence it comes to pass that , though throughout the whole of the Essays one can scarcely find a word about the writer , yet they really make up a kind of auto- biography ...
... things Bacon did not think it amiss to take counsel with paper.1 Hence it comes to pass that , though throughout the whole of the Essays one can scarcely find a word about the writer , yet they really make up a kind of auto- biography ...
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Sida 58 - 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 :
Sida xxi - 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...
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 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 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 56 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Sida 3 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Sida xxv - 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.
Sida 2 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense: the last was the light of reason; and His Sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of 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 breatheth and inspireth light into the face of His chosen.
Sida 15 - 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.