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... pleasure in editing the essay , Of Gardens . It is not possible now to know just what iris Bacon meant by the ' chamaïris , ' or whether ' flos Africanus ' was the botanical name of the French marigold in his day , but as far as I could ...
... pleasure in editing the essay , Of Gardens . It is not possible now to know just what iris Bacon meant by the ' chamaïris , ' or whether ' flos Africanus ' was the botanical name of the French marigold in his day , but as far as I could ...
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... pleasure , and the Cecils , father and son , controlled the busi- ness of her government . In 1593 , a vacancy was about to occur in the office of Attorney - General . Bacon fixed his eye on the place and Essex encouraged his candidacy ...
... pleasure , and the Cecils , father and son , controlled the busi- ness of her government . In 1593 , a vacancy was about to occur in the office of Attorney - General . Bacon fixed his eye on the place and Essex encouraged his candidacy ...
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... pleasure she always had in his company . He left her presence much pleased with her reception , and thanked God , though he had suffered much trouble and storm abroad , that he had found a sweet calm at home . " The next day the Earl of ...
... pleasure she always had in his company . He left her presence much pleased with her reception , and thanked God , though he had suffered much trouble and storm abroad , that he had found a sweet calm at home . " The next day the Earl of ...
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... pleasures , " " the greatest refresh- ment to the spirits of man . " John Aubrey's gos- sip brings him before us enjoying his own garden . " Every meale , according to the season of the yeare , he had his table strewed with sweet herbes ...
... pleasures , " " the greatest refresh- ment to the spirits of man . " John Aubrey's gos- sip brings him before us enjoying his own garden . " Every meale , according to the season of the yeare , he had his table strewed with sweet herbes ...
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... pleasure of read- ing Bacon's Essays to be sensitive to the fulness and nicety of meaning of the well chosen words used . " Discretion of speech , " says Bacon in Of Discourse , " is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him ...
... pleasure of read- ing Bacon's Essays to be sensitive to the fulness and nicety of meaning of the well chosen words used . " Discretion of speech , " says Bacon in Of Discourse , " is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him ...
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Page 23 - Yet, even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols : and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 29 - I'll leave you till night; you are welcome to Elsinore. Ros. Good my lord ! [Exeunt Rosencrantz and Giiildenstern. Ham. Ay, so, God be wi' ye :—Now I am alone. O, what a rogue and 'peasant slave am I ! Is it not monstrous that this player here, But in a fiction, in a dream of passion, Could force his soul so to his own conceit That from her working all his visage wann'd ; Tears in his eyes, distraction in 's aspect, A broken voice, and his whole function suiting With forms to his conceit...
Page 118 - ... accent of Christians nor the gait of Christian, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed that I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.
Page 109 - ... if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...
Page 213 - Dis's waggon! daffodils That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses, That die unmarried, ere they can behold Bright Phoebus in his strength...
Page 75 - melior natura;" which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain...
Page 5 - 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.
Page 234 - 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.
Page 47 - 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.
Page 126 - For if any be a hearer of the word, and not a doer, he is like unto a man beholding his natural face in a glass; for he beholdeth himself, and goeth his way, and straightway forgetteth what manner of man he was.