Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, Volume 6Longman, 1858 |
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... INSERTED BY BACON IN A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF CAMDEN'S ANNALES ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL PREFACE Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion - 347 · 349 365 367 377 379 381 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . )
... INSERTED BY BACON IN A MANUSCRIPT COPY OF CAMDEN'S ANNALES ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL PREFACE Of Truth Of Death Of Unity in Religion - 347 · 349 365 367 377 379 381 ESSAYS OR COUNSELS CIVIL AND MORAL- ( continued . )
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... death . But the truth is , that though Bacon's history of Henry's reign was not written till 1621 , he had drawn up a slight sketch of Henry's character many years before , of which Speed had a copy , and knew the value and made the ...
... death . But the truth is , that though Bacon's history of Henry's reign was not written till 1621 , he had drawn up a slight sketch of Henry's character many years before , of which Speed had a copy , and knew the value and made the ...
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... death of Edward Plantagenet , Earl of Warwick . Great and devout reverence he bare unto religion , as he that employed ecclesiastical men in most of his affairs and negotiations ; and as he that was brought hardly and very late to the ...
... death of Edward Plantagenet , Earl of Warwick . Great and devout reverence he bare unto religion , as he that employed ecclesiastical men in most of his affairs and negotiations ; and as he that was brought hardly and very late to the ...
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... death , and which his successor disavowed . In expending of treasure he never spared charge that his affairs required , and in his foundations was magnificent enough , but his rewards were very limited ; so that his liberality was ...
... death , and which his successor disavowed . In expending of treasure he never spared charge that his affairs required , and in his foundations was magnificent enough , but his rewards were very limited ; so that his liberality was ...
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... death of Bourchier , he made Archbishop of Canterbury . description of many of these laws than was then necessary for English readers . English readers want the explanation now as much as foreigners ; and therefore I shall in most cases ...
... death of Bourchier , he made Archbishop of Canterbury . description of many of these laws than was then necessary for English readers . English readers want the explanation now as much as foreigners ; and therefore I shall in most cases ...
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Page 497 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 386 - 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 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 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 434 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
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 443 - 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 438 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
Page 413 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal.
Page 498 - ... be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.