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... understanding shall some- times hear ignorant men differ , and know well within himself that those which so differ mean one thing , and yet they them- selves would never agree . And if it come so to pass in that distance of judgment ...
... understanding shall some- times hear ignorant men differ , and know well within himself that those which so differ mean one thing , and yet they them- selves would never agree . And if it come so to pass in that distance of judgment ...
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... understanding . Surely Comi- neus mought have made the same judgment also , if it had pleased him , of his second master , Lewis the Eleventh , whose closeness was indeed his tormentor . The parable " of Pythag- oras is dark , but true ...
... understanding . Surely Comi- neus mought have made the same judgment also , if it had pleased him , of his second master , Lewis the Eleventh , whose closeness was indeed his tormentor . The parable " of Pythag- oras is dark , but true ...
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... understanding , restrained only to such friends . as are able to give a man counsel ; ( they indeed are best ; ) but even without that , a man learneth of himself , and bring- eth his own thoughts to light , and whetteth his wits as ...
... understanding , restrained only to such friends . as are able to give a man counsel ; ( they indeed are best ; ) but even without that , a man learneth of himself , and bring- eth his own thoughts to light , and whetteth his wits as ...
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... understanding , than in the virtues of the will and affections . There be some have an over - early ripe- ness in their years , which fadeth betimes . These are , first , such as have brittle wits , the edge whereof is soon turned ...
... understanding , than in the virtues of the will and affections . There be some have an over - early ripe- ness in their years , which fadeth betimes . These are , first , such as have brittle wits , the edge whereof is soon turned ...
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... - ference and election is good ; for it maketh the persons pre- 1 Understanding . 2 Boastful . 3 Spies . • Proper . 5 Mediocre . ferred more thankful , and the rest more officious : OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS 125 Of Followers and Friends.
... - ference and election is good ; for it maketh the persons pre- 1 Understanding . 2 Boastful . 3 Spies . • Proper . 5 Mediocre . ferred more thankful , and the rest more officious : OF FOLLOWERS AND FRIENDS 125 Of Followers and Friends.
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Page 128 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 203 - I know they are as lively, and as vigorously productive, as those fabulous dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet, on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book: who kills a man kills a reasonable creature, God's image; but he who destroys a good book, kills reason itself, kills the image of God, as it were, in the eye.
Page 128 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 181 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page 237 - Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks : methinks I see her as an eagle, mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full mid-day beam, — purging and unsealing her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance, while the whole noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love the twilight, flutter about, amazed at what she means, and in their envious gabble...
Page 249 - And though a linguist should pride himself to have all the tongues that Babel cleft the world into, yet if he have not studied the solid things in them as well as the words and lexicons, he were nothing so much to be esteemed a learned man, as any yeoman or tradesman competently wise in his mother dialect only.
Page 20 - The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Page 117 - It is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks: and a man shall ever see that when ages grow to civility and elegancy, men come to build stately sooner than to garden finely; as if gardening were the greater perfection. I do hold it, in the royal ordering of gardens, there ought to be gardens for all the months in the year; in which severally things of beauty may be then in season.
Page 17 - Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and, hopes. We see, in needleworks and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eve.
Page 251 - I call therefore a complete and generous education, that which fits a man to perform justly, skilfully, and magnanimously all the offices, both private and public, of peace and war.