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... practice , frequently overlooked , they will deride as ' vapid truisms ' if very plainly set forth , and will wonder that any one should think it worth while to notice them . Now , Bacon is a striking instance of a genius who could ...
... practice , frequently overlooked , they will deride as ' vapid truisms ' if very plainly set forth , and will wonder that any one should think it worth while to notice them . Now , Bacon is a striking instance of a genius who could ...
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... . ' ) ' Unreasonable impositions on the mind and practice .'- Watts . 4 Daintily . Elegantly . " The Duke exceeded in that his leg was daintily formed .'- Wotton . B price of a diamond or carbuncle , that showeth best.
... . ' ) ' Unreasonable impositions on the mind and practice .'- Watts . 4 Daintily . Elegantly . " The Duke exceeded in that his leg was daintily formed .'- Wotton . B price of a diamond or carbuncle , that showeth best.
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... practice - truth without any ulterior end , should be sought , but that truth should be sought and followed confidently , not in each instance , only so far as we perceive it to be expedient , and from motives of policy , but with a ...
... practice - truth without any ulterior end , should be sought , but that truth should be sought and followed confidently , not in each instance , only so far as we perceive it to be expedient , and from motives of policy , but with a ...
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... practice only by postponing all other questions to that which ought ever to come foremost - ' What is the truth ? ' If this question be asked only in the second place , it is likely to receive a very different answer from what it would ...
... practice only by postponing all other questions to that which ought ever to come foremost - ' What is the truth ? ' If this question be asked only in the second place , it is likely to receive a very different answer from what it would ...
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... practice ; the holding forth or fostering false consolations , false encouragements , and false sanctions , or con- niving at their being held forth or believed , are all pious frauds . This springs from , and it will foster and ...
... practice ; the holding forth or fostering false consolations , false encouragements , and false sanctions , or con- niving at their being held forth or believed , are all pious frauds . This springs from , and it will foster and ...
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Page 447 - 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: Abeunt studia in mores!
Page 262 - 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.
Page 141 - Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying: Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousand of his saints, to execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.
Page 454 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested...
Page 447 - 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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 3 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 532 - And they shall be mine, Saith the LORD of hosts, in that day when I make up my jewels : And I will spare them, as a man spareth his own son that serveth him. Then shall ye return, And discern between the righteous and the wicked, Between him that serveth God and him that serveth him not.
Page 393 - His lord answered and said unto him, Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou knewest that I reap where I sowed not, and gather where I have not strawed: thou oughtest therefore to have put my money to the exchangers, and then at my coming I should have received mine own with usury.
Page 266 - The second fruit of friendship is healthful and sovereign for the understanding, as the first is for the affections; for friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding, out of darkness and confusion of thoughts...
Page 15 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.