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... keep you in business . " Each head is discussed with equal brevity , prudence , and insight . He was an incomparable coun- sellor , and though the days of minions are over , there is much instruction for the soundest 66 politicians in ...
... keep you in business . " Each head is discussed with equal brevity , prudence , and insight . He was an incomparable coun- sellor , and though the days of minions are over , there is much instruction for the soundest 66 politicians in ...
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... keep a right course according to the law . Herein , though I could not be ignorant either of the difficulty of the matter , which he that taketh in hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness , which I had continual sense ...
... keep a right course according to the law . Herein , though I could not be ignorant either of the difficulty of the matter , which he that taketh in hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness , which I had continual sense ...
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... keep them from being too vast in volumes , or too full of multiplicity and crossness ; how they are to be expounded , when upon causes emergent and judicially discussed , and when upon responses and conferences touching general points ...
... keep them from being too vast in volumes , or too full of multiplicity and crossness ; how they are to be expounded , when upon causes emergent and judicially discussed , and when upon responses and conferences touching general points ...
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... keeping dangers afar off , whereas the other discover them not till they come near hand , and then trust to the agility of their wit to ward off or avoid them . Which felicity of times under learned princes , to keep still the law of ...
... keeping dangers afar off , whereas the other discover them not till they come near hand , and then trust to the agility of their wit to ward off or avoid them . Which felicity of times under learned princes , to keep still the law of ...
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... keep the ancient terms . For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking , by the order and perspicuous expressing of that I do propound ; I am otherwise zealous and affection- ate to recede as little from antiquity , either in terms ...
... keep the ancient terms . For hoping well to deliver myself from mistaking , by the order and perspicuous expressing of that I do propound ; I am otherwise zealous and affection- ate to recede as little from antiquity , either in terms ...
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Page viii - 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 12 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 301 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules, is the humour of a scholar. They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning by study; and studies themselves do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience.
Page 301 - 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. To spend too much time...
Page 288 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people, and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant ; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation ; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then 20 certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Page 266 - 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 283 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another : he tosseth his thoughts more easily, he marshalleth them more orderly, he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself, and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
Page 261 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth 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. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace and such an odious charge ? Saith he, ' If it be well weighed, to say that a man...
Page 301 - 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 298 - I speak not, because they are fieldflowers ; but those which perfume the air most delightfully, not passed by as the rest, but being trodden upon and crushed, are three ; that is, Burnet, Wild Thyme, and Water-Mints ; therefore you are to set whole alleys of them, to have the pleasure when you walk or tread.