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... GARDENS . XLVII . OF NEGOCIATING XLVIII . OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS -XLIX . OF SUITORS OF STUDIES . LI . OF FACTION LII . OF CEREMONIES LIII . OF PRAISE • LIV . OF VAIN - GLORY LV . OF HONOUR AND REPUTATION LVI . OF JUDICATURE LVII . OF ...
... GARDENS . XLVII . OF NEGOCIATING XLVIII . OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS -XLIX . OF SUITORS OF STUDIES . LI . OF FACTION LII . OF CEREMONIES LIII . OF PRAISE • LIV . OF VAIN - GLORY LV . OF HONOUR AND REPUTATION LVI . OF JUDICATURE LVII . OF ...
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... Gardens . " A passage like this comes to one like the breath of a cool mountain breeze amid the sultry stillness of a mid- summer's afternoon : " Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air ( where it comes and goes like the ...
... Gardens . " A passage like this comes to one like the breath of a cool mountain breeze amid the sultry stillness of a mid- summer's afternoon : " Because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air ( where it comes and goes like the ...
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... Gardens , " " Suitors , " " Judicature , " " Discourse , " " Faction , " & c . Under the second group would be ranked the papers dealing with Man the individual , in his intellectual and moral relations . The Essays regarded as ...
... Gardens , " " Suitors , " " Judicature , " " Discourse , " " Faction , " & c . Under the second group would be ranked the papers dealing with Man the individual , in his intellectual and moral relations . The Essays regarded as ...
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... gardens , as Timon had . Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature ; and yet they are the fittest timber to make great politics of ; like to knee - timber , that is good for ships that are ordained to be tossed , but not for ...
... gardens , as Timon had . Such dispositions are the very errors of human nature ; and yet they are the fittest timber to make great politics of ; like to knee - timber , that is good for ships that are ordained to be tossed , but not for ...
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... gardens of state and pleasure , near great cities ; armories ; arsenals ; magazines ; exchanges ; burses ; warehouses ; exercises of horsemanship , fencing , train- ing of soldiers , and the like ; comedies , such whereunto the better ...
... gardens of state and pleasure , near great cities ; armories ; arsenals ; magazines ; exchanges ; burses ; warehouses ; exercises of horsemanship , fencing , train- ing of soldiers , and the like ; comedies , such whereunto the better ...
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Æsop affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better beware body bold Cæsar Castoreum cause Certainly Cicero commend common commonly counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death discourse doth England envy Epicurus ESSAY factions fame favour fear flowers fortune Francis Bacon Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath honour humours hurt Hyacinthus orientalis judge judgement Julius Cæsar keep kind kings less likewise maketh man's matter means men's merchants mind motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch politic Pompey princes religion reputation riches saith Salomon secret seditions seemeth Septimius Severus servants shew side Sir Nicholas Bacon sometimes sort speak speech sure suspicion Tacitus things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth turn unto usury Vespasian virtue Vitellius water-mints whereby wherein whereof wisdom wise
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Page 3 - 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.
Page 4 - 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 74 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator...
Page 4 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 74 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation ; and they that reverence too much old times are but a scorn to the new.
Page xxxi - 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.
Page 5 - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much to say as 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.
Page 85 - I mean aid, and bearing a part in all actions and occasions. Here the best way to represent to life the manifold use of friendship, is to cast and see how many things there are which a man cannot do himself; and then it will appear that it was a sparing speech of the ancients to say, That a friend is another himself; for that a friend is far more than himself.
Page 109 - Believe not much them that seem to despise riches ; for they despise them that despair of them ; and none worse, when they come to them. Be not pennywise ; riches have wings, and sometimes they fly away of themselves, sometimes they must be set flying to bring in more.
Page 22 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.