The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount St. AlbanE. P. Dutton & Company, 1900 |
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... greater elasticity in matters of doctrine and of discipline . Ere long he attained fame as a parliamentary orator . The same compactness of expression and richness of fancy characterised his speeches as appear in his writings . Ben ...
... greater elasticity in matters of doctrine and of discipline . Ere long he attained fame as a parliamentary orator . The same compactness of expression and richness of fancy characterised his speeches as appear in his writings . Ben ...
Page xxx
... greater pains , and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities , & c . " Previous to this , he had been appointed president of a new Court called " The Verge , " instituted to deal directly with offences committed ...
... greater pains , and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities , & c . " Previous to this , he had been appointed president of a new Court called " The Verge , " instituted to deal directly with offences committed ...
Page xxxvi
... The epistle manifests a strange mingling of pathos and petulance , of noble aspirations after greater purity in " the fount of 1 P. 232 . 2 P. 99 . justice " with ignoble aspersions on those who assailed him xxxvi Introduction.
... The epistle manifests a strange mingling of pathos and petulance , of noble aspirations after greater purity in " the fount of 1 P. 232 . 2 P. 99 . justice " with ignoble aspersions on those who assailed him xxxvi Introduction.
Page xxxvii
... greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour . " These sen- tences , written after his fall , show the effect it had produced upon him . By no student of Bacon's 1 P. 18 . 1 works can this Essay " On Adversity " be ...
... greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour . " These sen- tences , written after his fall , show the effect it had produced upon him . By no student of Bacon's 1 P. 18 . 1 works can this Essay " On Adversity " be ...
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... greater literary artist , Bacon was the profounder moral and intellectual force . That Bacon had read Montaigne when the first book of the latter's Essays was published in 1580 is strongly probable , though he does not personally ...
... greater literary artist , Bacon was the profounder moral and intellectual force . That Bacon had read Montaigne when the first book of the latter's Essays was published in 1580 is strongly probable , though he does not personally ...
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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.