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... desires for the triumph of right over might . The defects of Bacon's nature conspired with the faults of his conception of history to taint his work with lukewarm censure of falsehood and ex- tortion , with a cool display of the ...
... desires for the triumph of right over might . The defects of Bacon's nature conspired with the faults of his conception of history to taint his work with lukewarm censure of falsehood and ex- tortion , with a cool display of the ...
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... desires for the triumph of right over might . " The common sense of Englishmen ( guided in this 1 Adv . of Learn , vol . iii . p . 339 . case more perhaps than in any other by real earnestness THE REIGN OF HENRY VII . 15.
... desires for the triumph of right over might . " The common sense of Englishmen ( guided in this 1 Adv . of Learn , vol . iii . p . 339 . case more perhaps than in any other by real earnestness THE REIGN OF HENRY VII . 15.
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... the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of 22 PREFACE TO HIST . OF REIGN OF HENRY VII c 3 THE REIGN OF HENRY VII . 21.
... the people ( into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes , though it be with the unjust charge of 22 PREFACE TO HIST . OF REIGN OF HENRY VII c 3 THE REIGN OF HENRY VII . 21.
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... desire of children caused him to overcome his aversion . " 2. Hume ( 1759 ) . " Henry remarked with much displeasure the general favour which was borne the house of York . The suspicions which arose from it not only disturbed his ...
... desire of children caused him to overcome his aversion . " 2. Hume ( 1759 ) . " Henry remarked with much displeasure the general favour which was borne the house of York . The suspicions which arose from it not only disturbed his ...
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... desire to make a peace with the King , yet finding his nobles averse and not daring to displease them , concluded only a truce for seven years2 ; giving nevertheless promise in private , that it should be renewed from time to time ...
... desire to make a peace with the King , yet finding his nobles averse and not daring to displease them , concluded only a truce for seven years2 ; giving nevertheless promise in private , that it should be renewed from time to time ...
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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 :