Bacon's Essays: And Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1899 - 388 pages |
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Adagia added Æsop altered Antith Apoph Atheisme Augustus Cæsar autem Bacon better Businesse Cæsar cause Certainly colour commeth commonly Comp couler Counsell Counsellours Cunning danger Dio Cass Discontentments Discourse doth edition of 1612 enlarged Envy Epicurus Epimetheus ESSAY Estate evill Factions Fame farre Favour Fortune Frend generall goeth Greatnesse hath haue Henry himselfe Hist Honour instar Iudge Iudgement kinde King Kingdom of Britain Kingdome Latin adds likewise Luca Gaurico lviii maketh Matter Minde Naturall Nature Number omitted Opinion Ovid passage Persons Place placebo Plut Plutarch Poets Princes Promus quæ quam quod quoted Religion rerum saith seemeth selfe severall shew speake Speech Subiects Sunne sunt Sutes Tacitus tamen tanquam therfore Things tion Tobie Matthew translation true unto Usury Vertue Vespasian vpon Vulgate Warre whereof wise Wisedome xlvi xxix xxvii
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Page xxx - 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 xxxiii - WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate ; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness ; and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting. 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 72 - 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 176 - 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 xxxv - ... 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 80 - Roman name attaineth the true use and cause thereof, naming them " participes curarum;" for it is that which tieth the knot: and we see plainly that this hath been done, not by weak and passionate princes only, but by the wisest and most politic that ever reigned, who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants, whom both themselves have...
Page xxx - Such an one is a great rich man," and another except to it, "Yea, but he hath a great charge of children," as if it were an abatement to his riches. But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty, especially in certain...
Page 177 - 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: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or...
Page 71 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator...
Page xxxv - 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. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.