The Essays, Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. AlbansMacmillan, 1905 - 318 pages |
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... concerning himself attached in Latin Ms. to his treatise on the " Interpretation of Nature , " and translated by his admirable if too partial biographer , James Spedding , he declares that he finds himself fitted for nothing so well as ...
... concerning himself attached in Latin Ms. to his treatise on the " Interpretation of Nature , " and translated by his admirable if too partial biographer , James Spedding , he declares that he finds himself fitted for nothing so well as ...
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... sumed his new rank on May 7 with magnificence . In addressing the bar on that occasion , he spoke with peculiar power and wisdom concerning the judicial spirit and method , and dealt plainly with prevailing habits xxxii INTRODUCTION.
... sumed his new rank on May 7 with magnificence . In addressing the bar on that occasion , he spoke with peculiar power and wisdom concerning the judicial spirit and method , and dealt plainly with prevailing habits xxxii INTRODUCTION.
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... concerning future pardon and re- mission . The " trial " took place , the House of Lords acting as both judge and prosecutor . A formal answer was required to each count in the indictment , and it was then adjudged " that , upon his own ...
... concerning future pardon and re- mission . The " trial " took place , the House of Lords acting as both judge and prosecutor . A formal answer was required to each count in the indictment , and it was then adjudged " that , upon his own ...
Page xli
... concerning Bacon's unwillingness to give up York House : " If you part not speedily with it , you may defer the good which is approaching near you , and disappointing other aims . . . perhaps anew yield matter of discontent , though you ...
... concerning Bacon's unwillingness to give up York House : " If you part not speedily with it , you may defer the good which is approaching near you , and disappointing other aims . . . perhaps anew yield matter of discontent , though you ...
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... concerning the Advancement of Learning : " I have been mine own Index Expurgatorius , that it may be read in all places . For since my end of putting it in Latin was to have it read everywhere , it had been an absurd contradiction to ...
... concerning the Advancement of Learning : " I have been mine own Index Expurgatorius , that it may be read in all places . For since my end of putting it in Latin was to have it read everywhere , it had been an absurd contradiction to ...
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Page 174 - 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 3 - 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 158 - 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 175 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. 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 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 4 - Men fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 22 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men ; which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Page 15 - 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 83 - 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 2 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath- work , ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.