The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount St. AlbanE. P. Dutton & Company, 1900 |
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... enlarged them , both in Number , and Weight ; So that they are indeed a New Worke . I thought it therefore agreeable , to my Affection , and Obligation to your Grace , to prefix your Name before them , both in English , and in Latine. V.
... enlarged them , both in Number , and Weight ; So that they are indeed a New Worke . I thought it therefore agreeable , to my Affection , and Obligation to your Grace , to prefix your Name before them , both in English , and in Latine. V.
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... thought and the pithiness of the style rendered the book wellnigh an epoch - making one . Its popu- larity was great , almost from the day of issue . But of this more anon . Elizabeth was now rapidly nearing the end of her memorable ...
... thought and the pithiness of the style rendered the book wellnigh an epoch - making one . Its popu- larity was great , almost from the day of issue . But of this more anon . Elizabeth was now rapidly nearing the end of her memorable ...
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... thoughts will fly to it of themselves . " 1 His activity was phenomenal . Five months after his fall he completed his History of Henry VII . , which received the praise of Grotius and Locke as a model of philosophical history - writing ...
... thoughts will fly to it of themselves . " 1 His activity was phenomenal . Five months after his fall he completed his History of Henry VII . , which received the praise of Grotius and Locke as a model of philosophical history - writing ...
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... thought and concise- ness of expression a virtue , passing meritorious , in an age when looseness alike in thought and language was the rule rather than the exception . While the Essays may not , as a whole , display the stately music ...
... thought and concise- ness of expression a virtue , passing meritorious , in an age when looseness alike in thought and language was the rule rather than the exception . While the Essays may not , as a whole , display the stately music ...
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... thought even beyond the border line of conceits , the quaint humour and the sparkling wit , all have their place in the Essays . The sharp , antithetic form in which he elected to present his thoughts in the earlier Essays necessarily ...
... thought even beyond the border line of conceits , the quaint humour and the sparkling wit , all have their place in the Essays . The sharp , antithetic form in which he elected to present his thoughts in the earlier Essays necessarily ...
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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.