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... History of his Majesty's times . " It may please your Majesty , " Hearing that your Majesty is at leisure to pe- " ruse story , a desire took me to make an experiment " what I could do in your majesty's times , xxxviii PREFACE .
... History of his Majesty's times . " It may please your Majesty , " Hearing that your Majesty is at leisure to pe- " ruse story , a desire took me to make an experiment " what I could do in your majesty's times , xxxviii PREFACE .
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... those by whom they are related and celebrated , as by Homer , Hesiod , and others for if it were so , that they took be- ginning in that age , and from those authors by whom they are delivered and brought to our hands , my iv PREFACE .
... those by whom they are related and celebrated , as by Homer , Hesiod , and others for if it were so , that they took be- ginning in that age , and from those authors by whom they are delivered and brought to our hands , my iv PREFACE .
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... took pains , by dispersing themselves into every corner , to find her out , it was only his good hap , as he was hunting , to light on her , and acquaint the rest where she was . He presumed also to put it to the trial who was the best ...
... took pains , by dispersing themselves into every corner , to find her out , it was only his good hap , as he was hunting , to light on her , and acquaint the rest where she was . He presumed also to put it to the trial who was the best ...
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... took to wife ; and one pretty wench more called Syrinx , towards whom Cupid , in an angry and revengeful humour , because so audaciously he had challenged him at wrestling , inflamed his desire . Moreover , he had no issue , which is a ...
... took to wife ; and one pretty wench more called Syrinx , towards whom Cupid , in an angry and revengeful humour , because so audaciously he had challenged him at wrestling , inflamed his desire . Moreover , he had no issue , which is a ...
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... took beginning from the word of God by the means of confused matter , and the entrance of prevarication and corruption . The destinies may well be thought the sisters of Pan , or Nature , because the beginnings and continuances , and ...
... took beginning from the word of God by the means of confused matter , and the entrance of prevarication and corruption . The destinies may well be thought the sisters of Pan , or Nature , because the beginnings and continuances , and ...
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Page xxiv - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 496 - An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page xxv - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the...
Page xxv - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs...
Page xxv - That it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy or sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage.
Page 192 - Lambert, the king would not take his life, both out of magnanimity, taking him but as an image of wax, that others had tempered and molded ; and likewise out of wisdom, thinking that if he suffered death, he would be forgotten too soon ; but being kept alive, he would be a continual spectacle, and a kind of remedy against the like enchantments of people in time to come.
Page 410 - Christendom, but the industry and vigilancy of his own ambassadors in foreign parts. For which purpose his instructions were ever extreme curious and articulate ; and in them more articles touching inquisition than touching negotiation: requiring likewise from his ambassadors an answer, in particular distinct articles, respectively to his questions.
Page xxi - It is true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.
Page 284 - The king, on his part, was not asleep, but to arm or levy forces yet, he thought would but show fear, and do this idol too much worship. Nevertheless the ports he did shut up, or at least kept a watch on them, that none should pass to or fro that was suspected : but, for the rest, he chose to work by countermine. His purposes were two : the one to lay open the abuse, the other to break...
Page 341 - The bishop also, according to another article of his instructions, demanded restitution of the spoils taken by the Scottish, or damages for the same. But the Scottish commismissioners answered, that that was but as water spilt upon the ground, which could not be gotten up again ; and that the king's people were better able to bear the loss than their master to repair it.