The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount St. AlbanE. P. Dutton & Company, 1900 |
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... fair retreat . For if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration , he must go through , or take a fall . The third is , the better to discover the mind of another . For to him that opens himself men will hardly shew themselves ...
... fair retreat . For if a man engage himself by a manifest declaration , he must go through , or take a fall . The third is , the better to discover the mind of another . For to him that opens himself men will hardly shew themselves ...
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... fair timber - tree sound and perfect : how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility is but the act of power ; but ancient nobility is the act of time ...
... fair timber - tree sound and perfect : how much more to behold an ancient noble family , which hath stood against the waves and weathers of time . For new nobility is but the act of power ; but ancient nobility is the act of time ...
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... fair timber - tre sound and how much more to hold an a , cent noble , which hath stood against the waves and ivne . For Jew nobility is but the act f but aint nol ' tv is the act of time . rarc first raised to nobility are commonly une ...
... fair timber - tre sound and how much more to hold an a , cent noble , which hath stood against the waves and ivne . For Jew nobility is but the act f but aint nol ' tv is the act of time . rarc first raised to nobility are commonly une ...
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... fair weather . But let us pass from this part of predictions ( concerning which , nevertheless , more light may be taken from that which followeth ) , and let us speak first of the materials of seditions ; then of the motives of them ...
... fair weather . But let us pass from this part of predictions ( concerning which , nevertheless , more light may be taken from that which followeth ) , and let us speak first of the materials of seditions ; then of the motives of them ...
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... fair room . There- fore you shall see them find out pretty looses in the conclusion , but are no ways able to examine or debate matters . And yet commonly they take advantage of their inability , and would be thought wits of direction ...
... fair room . There- fore you shall see them find out pretty looses in the conclusion , but are no ways able to examine or debate matters . And yet commonly they take advantage of their inability , and would be thought wits of direction ...
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Page 109 - 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 73 - TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 2 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt such as we spake of before.
Page 2 - ... 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.
Page 214 - 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 145 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked, condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues » and not fall to work, but be lazy and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country, to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 109 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...
Page 188 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 2 committeth himself to prison...
Page 5 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 41 - EN in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.