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... express the images of their minds , where those of their bodies have failed - so the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity . They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children ...
... express the images of their minds , where those of their bodies have failed - so the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity . They that are the first raisers of their houses are most indulgent towards their children ...
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... express thyself well 34 when thou digressest from thy rule . Preserve the right of thy place , 35 but stir not questions of jurisdiction ; and rather assume thy right in silence , and de facto , then voice it37 with claims and ...
... express thyself well 34 when thou digressest from thy rule . Preserve the right of thy place , 35 but stir not questions of jurisdiction ; and rather assume thy right in silence , and de facto , then voice it37 with claims and ...
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... express it . Goodness I call the habit , and goodness of nature the inclination . This , of all virtues and dignities of the mind , is the greatest , being the character of the Deity ; and without it , man is a busy , 7 mischievous ...
... express it . Goodness I call the habit , and goodness of nature the inclination . This , of all virtues and dignities of the mind , is the greatest , being the character of the Deity ; and without it , man is a busy , 7 mischievous ...
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... express it , he proves his auтaρкeía , or self - sufficiency , more in adversity than in prosperity . 5 The older form of than . I am braver than he = I am more brave , then he ( is brave in a less degree ) . 6 Possibly Bacon implies ...
... express it , he proves his auтaρкeía , or self - sufficiency , more in adversity than in prosperity . 5 The older form of than . I am braver than he = I am more brave , then he ( is brave in a less degree ) . 6 Possibly Bacon implies ...
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... express himself some- what loosely . His meaning is obvious : the statesman may find sufficient examples or models whereby to regulate his conduct , if he will only imitate them . But it is not strictly correct to say that the imitation ...
... express himself some- what loosely . His meaning is obvious : the statesman may find sufficient examples or models whereby to regulate his conduct , if he will only imitate them . But it is not strictly correct to say that the imitation ...
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Page 2 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth 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 4 - 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.
Page 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore and to see ships tossed upon the sea; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle and to see a battle and the adventures thereof below; but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors and wanderings and mists and tempests in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 1 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 4 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Page 2 - ... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 25 - 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: neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend; but before you come to that, certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding...
Page 15 - ... as the place deserveth, but not long ; nay, when he stayeth in one city or town, let him change his lodging from one end and part of the town to another, which is a great adamant of acquaintance ; let him sequester himself from the company of his countrymen, and diet in such places where there is good company of the nation where he travelleth...
Page 35 - All practice is to discover, or to work. Men discover themselves in trust, in passion, at unawares ; and of necessity, when they would have somewhat done, and cannot find an apt pretext. If you would work any man, you must either know his nature and fashions, and so lead him ; or his ends, and so persuade him ; or his weakness and disadvantages, and so awe him ; or those that have interest in him, and so govern him.
Page xii - 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.