The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious worksHurd & Houghton, 1877 - Philosophy |
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... Nature 118 Of Nobility 121 · Of Seditions and Troubles 123 Of Atheism ✓Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel 131 · 135 137 140 146 Of Delays 152 Of Cunning 153 Of Wisdom for a Man's Self 158 Of Innovations 160 Of Dispatch 161 ...
... Nature 118 Of Nobility 121 · Of Seditions and Troubles 123 Of Atheism ✓Of Superstition Of Travel Of Empire Of Counsel 131 · 135 137 140 146 Of Delays 152 Of Cunning 153 Of Wisdom for a Man's Self 158 Of Innovations 160 Of Dispatch 161 ...
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... nature , and one of the most careful , curious , and ingenious studies of the kind ever produced . It is important too that this should be understood ; because upon this it is that the main interest of the work depends . For it must be ...
... nature , and one of the most careful , curious , and ingenious studies of the kind ever produced . It is important too that this should be understood ; because upon this it is that the main interest of the work depends . For it must be ...
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... nature he coveted to accumulate treasure , which the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to dis- charge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of their counsellors and ...
... nature he coveted to accumulate treasure , which the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to dis- charge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of their counsellors and ...
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... nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great understanding ( who seeing his after - acts looked back upon his former pro- ceedings ) that even in the time of King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to ...
... nature . And therefore it was noted by men of great understanding ( who seeing his after - acts looked back upon his former pro- ceedings ) that even in the time of King Edward his brother he was not without secret trains and mines to ...
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... nature to strive to send it forth by an extreme sweat . And it appeared by experience that this disease was rather a surprise of nature , than obstinate to remedies , if it were in time looked unto . For if the patient were kept in an ...
... nature to strive to send it forth by an extreme sweat . And it appeared by experience that this disease was rather a surprise of nature , than obstinate to remedies , if it were in time looked unto . For if the patient were kept in an ...
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Page 245 - 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 123 - It is true that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. For, while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them and go no further, but, when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 75 - 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 86 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, Adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour. Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs, as carols. And the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job, than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 245 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Page 74 - 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 95 - ... to marry when he will : but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry. " A " young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Page 153 - All this is true, if time stood still; which, contrariwise, moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation; and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new. It were good, therefore, that men in their innovations, would follow the example of time itself, which indeed innovateth greatly, but quietly, and by degrees scarce to be perceived...
Page 160 - ... certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another: he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 91 - The perpetuity by generation is common to beasts; but memory, merit, and noble works are proper to men: and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men, which have sought to 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.