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... COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL PREFACE Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion ( - 349 365 - 367 - 377 - 379 · 381 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . )
... COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL PREFACE Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion ( - 349 365 - 367 - 377 - 379 · 381 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . )
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... Counsel Of Delays Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's self Of Innovations Of Dispatch · Of Seeming Wise XXOf Friendship ... COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . ) viii CONTENTS OF.
... Counsel Of Delays Of Cunning Of Wisdom for a Man's self Of Innovations Of Dispatch · Of Seeming Wise XXOf Friendship ... COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . ) viii CONTENTS OF.
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Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . ) Of Negotiating Of Followers and Friends Of Suitors Xof Studies Of Faction Of Ceremonies and Respects Of Praise Of ...
Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . ) Of Negotiating Of Followers and Friends Of Suitors Xof Studies Of Faction Of Ceremonies and Respects Of Praise Of ...
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... counsel on either side , but ( as I said ) of the judge when he is expounding the case to the jury so that they may be best able to come to a just opinion on it . Or if this example be objected to as not strictly parallel , ( because ...
... counsel on either side , but ( as I said ) of the judge when he is expounding the case to the jury so that they may be best able to come to a just opinion on it . Or if this example be objected to as not strictly parallel , ( because ...
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... counsels and the speeches and notable particularities . And this was the reason why I mought not attempt to go higher to more ancient times , because those helps and grounds did more and more fail ; although if I be not deceived I may ...
... counsels and the speeches and notable particularities . And this was the reason why I mought not attempt to go higher to more ancient times , because those helps and grounds did more and more fail ; although if I be not deceived I may ...
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Page 575 - 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.
Page 497 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight, is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business.
Page 379 - ... 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 377 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 413 - 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 481 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets; who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison.
Page 392 - So as a man may have a quarrel 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 455 - As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart o'ut somewhat that is piquant and to the quick: that is a vein which would be bridled: Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris.
Page 478 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 415 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :