The Essays, Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. AlbansMacmillan, 1905 - 318 pages |
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... opinion of his " unsuitableness " as a public servant . There was in Bacon , indeed , a strain of inquiry , of large tolerance for truth , of catholic reasonableness , that made it hard for him to support at any time the character of a ...
... opinion of his " unsuitableness " as a public servant . There was in Bacon , indeed , a strain of inquiry , of large tolerance for truth , of catholic reasonableness , that made it hard for him to support at any time the character of a ...
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... opinion , " says Bacon , " that the Queen could be brought to nothing but by a kind of necessity and authority . " Certainly , Essex easily realized his unfortunate desire in 1599 , when he chose and was appointed to go as Lord ...
... opinion , " says Bacon , " that the Queen could be brought to nothing but by a kind of necessity and authority . " Certainly , Essex easily realized his unfortunate desire in 1599 , when he chose and was appointed to go as Lord ...
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... opinion . I know it had been more safe and politic to have been silent ; but it is more honest and loving to speak . When a man speaketh , he may be wounded by others ; but as he holds his peace from good things ; he wounds him- self ...
... opinion . I know it had been more safe and politic to have been silent ; but it is more honest and loving to speak . When a man speaketh , he may be wounded by others ; but as he holds his peace from good things ; he wounds him- self ...
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... opinion was more than justified by the appearance of the Novum Organum a few months later , he passed his sixtieth . birthday , January 22 , 1620 , in peaceful splendour . Hardly more than a year later he had fallen into an apparently ...
... opinion was more than justified by the appearance of the Novum Organum a few months later , he passed his sixtieth . birthday , January 22 , 1620 , in peaceful splendour . Hardly more than a year later he had fallen into an apparently ...
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... opinion must be sent to Utopia ; " and so cure the disease and kill the patient ; ' As for the making of knots or figures with divers coloured earths . . . they be but toys : you may see as good sights many times in tarts . ' And in ...
... opinion must be sent to Utopia ; " and so cure the disease and kill the patient ; ' As for the making of knots or figures with divers coloured earths . . . they be but toys : you may see as good sights many times in tarts . ' And in ...
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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.