The Promus of Formularies and EleganciesLongmans, Green and Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... seen to have been cor- rected , and the ideas modified or expanded . ( See folio 122 , 1319-1381 , and folio 128 , 1465–1478 . ) In folio 118 are a few texts and reflections on Hope , which reappear in the Meditationes Sacræ de Spe ...
... seen to have been cor- rected , and the ideas modified or expanded . ( See folio 122 , 1319-1381 , and folio 128 , 1465–1478 . ) In folio 118 are a few texts and reflections on Hope , which reappear in the Meditationes Sacræ de Spe ...
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... seen to greater advantage in other parts of Bacon's works , where they are accompanied by his comments , or shown in his application . . . " The proverbs may all , or nearly all , be found in our common collections , and the best are of ...
... seen to greater advantage in other parts of Bacon's works , where they are accompanied by his comments , or shown in his application . . . " The proverbs may all , or nearly all , be found in our common collections , and the best are of ...
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... seen combined not only the sentiments and opinions of Bacon , but also some of his verbal peculiarities . No one or two of these , perhaps not twenty such , might be held to afford proof that the writer of the notes was also the author ...
... seen combined not only the sentiments and opinions of Bacon , but also some of his verbal peculiarities . No one or two of these , perhaps not twenty such , might be held to afford proof that the writer of the notes was also the author ...
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... seen that the folios , or separate sheets , upon which the notes are written , have been numbered as they occur in the Harleian Collection , and that the first of the folios belonging to the Promus is No. 83 . quotations are entered in ...
... seen that the folios , or separate sheets , upon which the notes are written , have been numbered as they occur in the Harleian Collection , and that the first of the folios belonging to the Promus is No. 83 . quotations are entered in ...
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... seen that the whole of these have some relation to wisdom . There are texts on the pursuit of wisdom , on the connection between wisdom and truth , on the differences seen in the scorner and the patient inquirer after truth , the wisdom ...
... seen that the whole of these have some relation to wisdom . There are texts on the pursuit of wisdom , on the connection between wisdom and truth , on the differences seen in the scorner and the patient inquirer after truth , the wisdom ...
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Page 471 - Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead ; Force should be right ; or rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then...
Page 485 - tis not to come ; if it be not to come, it will be now ; if it be not now, yet it will come : the readiness is all.
Page 94 - O Cromwell, Cromwell, Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies.
Page 298 - God ! methinks it were a happy life, To be no better than a homely swain; To sit upon a hill, as I do now, To carve out dials quaintly, point by point, Thereby to see the minutes how they run: How many make the hour full complete; How many hours bring about the day ; How many days will finish up the year; How many years a mortal man may live.
Page 427 - Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety : other women cloy The appetites they feed, but she makes hungry, Where most she satisfies ; for vilest things Become themselves in her, that the holy priests Bless her when she is riggish.
Page 433 - O, mickle is the powerful grace that lies In herbs, plants, stones, and their true qualities: For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give...
Page 188 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be; For loan oft loses both itself and friend; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — to thine own self be true ; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.
Page 104 - My conscience hath a thousand several tongues, And every tongue brings in a several tale, And every tale condemns me for a villain. Perjury, perjury, in the high'st degree; Murder, stern murder in the dir'st degree; All several sins, all us'd in each degree, Throng to the bar, crying all, 'Guilty, guilty!
Page 210 - Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, This many summers in a sea of glory ; But far beyond my depth ; my high-blown pride At length broke under me ; and now has left me, Weary, and old with service, to the mercy Of a rude stream, that must for ever hide me.
Page 463 - For nought so vile that on the earth doth live But to the earth some special good doth give, Nor aught so good but strain'd from that fair use Revolts from true birth, stumbling on abuse: Virtue itself turns vice, being misapplied; And vice sometimes by action dignified.