The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1William Pickering., 1825 |
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... like as it was with Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a woman , who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran before her : therefore , let a man either avoid the occasion altogether , or 132 OF NATURE IN MEN .
... like as it was with Æsop's damsel , turned from a cat to a woman , who sat very demurely at the board's end till a mouse ran before her : therefore , let a man either avoid the occasion altogether , or 132 OF NATURE IN MEN .
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... Æsop , Gasca , president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them , with others . XLV . OF BUILDING . Houses are built to live in , and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity , except where both may ...
... Æsop , Gasca , president of Peru ; and Socrates may go likewise amongst them , with others . XLV . OF BUILDING . Houses are built to live in , and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity , except where both may ...
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... Æsop , the fly sat upon the axle - tree of the chariot wheel , and said , " What " a dust do I raise ! " So are there some vain persons , that , whatsoever goeth alone , or moveth upon greater means , if they have never so little hand ...
... Æsop , the fly sat upon the axle - tree of the chariot wheel , and said , " What " a dust do I raise ! " So are there some vain persons , that , whatsoever goeth alone , or moveth upon greater means , if they have never so little hand ...
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... Æsop framed the fable of the two frogs that consulted together in the time of drought , when many plashes that they had repaired to , were dry , what was to be done , and the one propounded to go down into a deep well , because it was ...
... Æsop framed the fable of the two frogs that consulted together in the time of drought , when many plashes that they had repaired to , were dry , what was to be done , and the one propounded to go down into a deep well , because it was ...
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... Æsop framed the fable of the fox and the cat ; whereas the fox bragged what a number of shifts and devices he had to get from the hounds , and the cat said she had but one , which was to climb a tree , which in proof was better worth ...
... Æsop framed the fable of the fox and the cat ; whereas the fox bragged what a number of shifts and devices he had to get from the hounds , and the cat said she had but one , which was to climb a tree , which in proof was better worth ...
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Page 149 - God Almighty first planted a garden ; and, indeed it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man ; without which buildings and palaces are but gross...
Page xl - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets ; nor for advantage, as with the merchant ; but for the lie's sake.
Page 85 - Magna rivitas, magna solitudo ; because in a great town friends are scattered; so that there is not that fellowship, for the most part, which is in less neighbourhoods. But we may go further, and affirm most truly, that it is a mere and miserable solitude, to want true friends ; without which the world is but a wilderness...
Page xl - If it be well weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to say that he is brave towards God and a coward towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks from man.' Surely the wickedness of falsehood and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men: it being foretold, that, when 'Christ cometh,' he shall not 'find faith upon the earth.
Page xiv - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again.
Page 21 - 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.
Page 81 - Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour ; but that which is specially to be noted is that those which, as Cicero says of Pompey, are sui amantes sine rivali...
Page 38 - Mahomet made the people believe that he would call a hill to him, and from the top of it offer up his prayers for the observers of his law. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again : and when the hill stood still, he was never a whit abashed, but said. " If the hill will not come to Mahomet, Mahomet will go to the hill 1.
Page 92 - A man cannot speak to his son, but as a father ; to his wife, but as a husband ; to his enemy, but upon terms ; whereas a friend may speak as the case requires, and not as it sorteth with the person.
Page 82 - All this is true, if time stood still ; which, contrary wise, 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.