Essayes, Volume 1D. Stott, 1891 |
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Page 176 - It is very likely that the principall credit of visions, of enchantments, and such extraordinary effects, proceedeth from the power of imaginations, working especially in the mindes of the vulgar sort, as the weakest and seeliest, whose conceit and beleefe is so seized upon, that they imagine to see what they see not.
Page 304 - ... ends unarmed, and to botch up all their works (as it is an easie matter in a common subject, namely for the wiser sort) with ancient inventions, here and there hudled up together. And in those who endeavoured to hide what they have filched from others, and make it their owne, it is first a manifest note of injustice, then a plaine argument of cowardlinesse ; who having nothing of any worth in themselves to make show of, will yet under the countenance of others...
Page xx - My imperfections shall therein be read to the life, and my naturall forme discerned, so farre-forth as publike reverence hath permitted me. For if my fortune had beene to have lived among those nations, which yet are said to live under the sweet liberty of Natures first and uncorrupted lawes, I assure thee, I would most willingly have pourtrayed my selfe fully and naked.
Page 228 - Rather, on the contrary, mee seemeth that all severall, strange, and particular fashions proceed rather of follie or ambitious affectation than of true reason : and that a wise man ought inwardly to retire his minde from the common presse, and hold the same liberty and power to judge freely of all things, but for outward matters he ought absolutely to follow the fashions and forme customarily received.
Page 356 - ... for, it is not a mind, it is not a body that we erect, but it is a man, and we must not make two parts of him. And as Plato saith, ' They must not be erected one without ' another, but equally be directed, no otherwise than a couple ' of horses matched to draw in one self-same teeme.
Page 205 - I have ever accustomed my selfe to tread a plaine beaten path, and have ever hated to entermeddle any manner of deceipt of cousoning-craft, even in my childish sports, (for truly it is to be noted, that Childrens playes are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions...
Page 333 - I may term it an enlightening of man's judgment drawn from the commerce of men, and by frequenting abroad in the world; we are all so contrived and compact in our selves, that our sight is made shorter by the length of our nose. When Socrates was demanded whence he was, he answered, not "of Athens...
Page 28 - ... many noble qualities, and amongst others with a well-nigh matchlesse beauty and comelinesse of body; but with other customes of his, hee had this one much contrarie to other Princes, who to dispatch their weightiest affaires make often their close stoole, their regall Throne or Councel-chamber, which was, that hee would not permit any groome of his chamber (were hee never so neere about him) to see him in his inner chamber, who if he had occasion but to make water, would as nicely...
Page 267 - But since the provisions of man may apply unto it, are full of unquietnesse and uncertaintie, much better is it with a full assurance to prepare himselfe patiently to endure whatsoever may happen, and draw some comfort from that which a man is never sure shall come to passe. CHAPTER XXIV OF PEDANTISME I HAVE in my youth...
Page 378 - ... cause we can never attaine to that absolute perfection of skill and knowledge of the Greekes and Romanes. I doe not beleeve that to be the onely cause. But so it is, the expedient my father found out was this ; that being yet at nurse, and before the first loosing of my tongue, I was delivered to a...