Bacon's EssaysLee and Shepard, 1880 - 641 pages |
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Page ix
... wisdom is like the seven - league boots , which would fit the giant or the dwarf , except only that the dwarf cannot take the same stride in them . " 2 Bacon was not mistaken in his own estimation of the Essays . In his Dedication of ...
... wisdom is like the seven - league boots , which would fit the giant or the dwarf , except only that the dwarf cannot take the same stride in them . " 2 Bacon was not mistaken in his own estimation of the Essays . In his Dedication of ...
Page xv
... wisdom of all Ages , which will enable any one to judge and act aright on every emergency . Others , on the contrary , represent them as fit only to furnish occasionally a motto for a book , a theme for a school - boy's exercise , or a ...
... wisdom of all Ages , which will enable any one to judge and act aright on every emergency . Others , on the contrary , represent them as fit only to furnish occasionally a motto for a book , a theme for a school - boy's exercise , or a ...
Page xxi
... wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common - place · It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very many others of the same stamp , professes to be a believer in what he chuses to call ...
... wisdom , would appear , if translated into common language , to be mere common - place · It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very many others of the same stamp , professes to be a believer in what he chuses to call ...
Page xxii
... wisdom ; though , perhaps , it is what , if stated in plain English , they would throw aside as partly trifling truisms , and partly stark folly . ' It is a remark which I have heard highly applauded , that a clear idea is generally a ...
... wisdom ; though , perhaps , it is what , if stated in plain English , they would throw aside as partly trifling truisms , and partly stark folly . ' It is a remark which I have heard highly applauded , that a clear idea is generally a ...
Page xli
... Wisdom of the Ancients 105 pages , and a list of Errata is appended to each . In the other copy the Essays comprise 112 pages , the last of which is blank ; the Wisdom of the Ancients 126 pages only , and there is no list of Errata ...
... Wisdom of the Ancients 105 pages , and a list of Errata is appended to each . In the other copy the Essays comprise 112 pages , the last of which is blank ; the Wisdom of the Ancients 126 pages only , and there is no list of Errata ...
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Page 169 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 472 - 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. 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 283 - Pythagoras is dark, but true, " cor ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto, are cannibals of their own hearts: but one thing is most admirable, wherewith I will conclude this first fruit of friendship, which is, that this communicating of a man's self to his friend works two contrary effects, for it redoubleth joys, and cutteth griefs in...
Page 13 - ... 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 104 - Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times.
Page 36 - For they that dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor yet the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, they have fulfilled them in condemning him.
Page 286 - A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it were granted to him and his deputy. For he may exercise them by his friend.
Page 345 - Discretion of speech is more than eloquence ; and to speak agreeably to him with whom we deal, is more than to speak in good words or in good order.
Page 550 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice; and an overspeaking judge is no well tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar ; or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 86 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants, but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away: and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen: for charity will hardly water the ground, where it must first fill a pool.