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... true cure of the disease ; and some other are so regular in proceeding according to art for the disease , as they re- spect not sufficiently the condition of the patient . Take one of a middle temper ; or , if it may not be found in 55 ...
... true cure of the disease ; and some other are so regular in proceeding according to art for the disease , as they re- spect not sufficiently the condition of the patient . Take one of a middle temper ; or , if it may not be found in 55 ...
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... true , and yet to bridle them as false . For so far a man ought to make use of suspicions , as to provide as , if that should be true that 25 he suspects , yet it may do him no hurt . Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers , are but ...
... true , and yet to bridle them as false . For so far a man ought to make use of suspicions , as to provide as , if that should be true that 25 he suspects , yet it may do him no hurt . Suspicions that the mind of itself gathers , are but ...
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... true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and want variety : which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious ...
... true . As if it were a praise to know what might be said , and not what should be thought . 5 Some have certain commonplaces and themes , wherein they are good , and want variety : which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious ...
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... true , speedy profit is not to be neglected , 15 as far as it may stand with the good of the plantation , but no farther . It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people , and wicked condemned men , to be the people ...
... true , speedy profit is not to be neglected , 15 as far as it may stand with the good of the plantation , but no farther . It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people , and wicked condemned men , to be the people ...
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... true logician , to have as well judgment as invention , he may do great 85 matters ; especially if the times be fit . He that resteth upon gains certain , shall hardly grow to great riches ; and he that puts all upon adventures , doth ...
... true logician , to have as well judgment as invention , he may do great 85 matters ; especially if the times be fit . He that resteth upon gains certain , shall hardly grow to great riches ; and he that puts all upon adventures , doth ...
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Page 75 - 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. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtle; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 74 - 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 75 - 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 56 - 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 76 - ... 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 find dif-ferences, 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:...
Page 57 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music), than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Page 51 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on. Therefore let use be preferred before uniformity ; except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost.
Page 58 - The green hath two pleasures ; the one, because nothing is more pleasant to the eye than green grass kept finely shorn ; the other, because it will give you a fair alley in the midst, by which you may go in front upon a stately hedge, which is to enclose the Garden.
Page 47 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express ; no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Page 44 - A MAN that is young in years may be old in hours, if he have lost no time. But that happeneth rarely. Generally, youth is like the first cogitations, not so wise as the second. For there is a youth in thoughts, as well as in ages. And yet the invention of young men is more lively than that of old ; and imaginations stream into their minds better, and as it were more divinely.