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Common terms and phrasesamongst ancient answered Aristippus asked atheism Augustus Caesar Bacon better bishop body brass Caesar cause Church Cicero cold colour cometh commonly conceit counsel creatures death divers divine doth drams earth effect envy evil Experiment solitary touching father fortune friends fruit give glass goeth gold grains hath heat holy honour imagination iron kind king knowledge labour less light likewise living lord Macedon majesty maketh man's matter means metals mind motion nature never observed oil of vitriol opinion ounce persons Pompey princes putrefaction queen quicksilver religion rest saith seemeth servants shew side silver Sir Nicholas Bacon smell sort speak speech spirit of wine spirits stone Tacitus thee Themistocles things thou thought tion true ture unto usury Vespasian virtue vitrification whereby wherein whereof whereupon wine wise words Popular passagesPage 254 - ... 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 374 - 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 374 - For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned. Page 256 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, 'Nunc dimittis' when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations. Page 310 - All this is true, if time stood still; which contrariwise 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. 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 111 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible. Page 315 - ... 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 267 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Page 315 - 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 called friends, and allowed others likewise to call them in the same manner, using the word which is received between private men. Page 318 - For there is no such flatterer as is a man's self ; and there is no such remedy against flattery of a man's self as the liberty of a friend. References from web pagesTHE WORKS OF FRANCIS BACON, BARON OF VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN ... Gillinson Library: Holdings, 13 September 2004 Bibliographic information
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