Lord Bacon's Essays: With a Sketch of His Life and Character, Reviews of His Philosophical Writings, Critical Estimates of His Essays, Analysis, Notes, and Queries for Students, and Select Portions of the Ànnotations ́of Archbishop WhatelyA.S. Barnes & Company, 1867 - 426 pages |
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... favor ; and this could not be obtained and preserved without such mediators . If he would become a man of consequence and accelerate his career , the favor of others was unfortunately a more effective expedient than his own intrinsic ...
... favor ; and this could not be obtained and preserved without such mediators . If he would become a man of consequence and accelerate his career , the favor of others was unfortunately a more effective expedient than his own intrinsic ...
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... favor because he had been the favorite of the Queen . He always stooped as soon as he saw that he might knock his head by keeping it upright . This spectacle of so great a mind in such a wavering and undignified con- dition is far from ...
... favor because he had been the favorite of the Queen . He always stooped as soon as he saw that he might knock his head by keeping it upright . This spectacle of so great a mind in such a wavering and undignified con- dition is far from ...
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... favor , or to contract a marriage which offered no charm but wealth . Violent passions were as alien from his heart as the fallacies which he termed " idols , " were alien from his intellect . We thus have a thorough explanation of the ...
... favor , or to contract a marriage which offered no charm but wealth . Violent passions were as alien from his heart as the fallacies which he termed " idols , " were alien from his intellect . We thus have a thorough explanation of the ...
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... favor . The King , however numer- ous his faults and deficiencies , has the credit of being an admirer of men of genius , so that the application of Bacon to receive the honor of knighthood was granted , on the coronation day , to him ...
... favor . The King , however numer- ous his faults and deficiencies , has the credit of being an admirer of men of genius , so that the application of Bacon to receive the honor of knighthood was granted , on the coronation day , to him ...
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... favor ; but unwisely , in one of his communications , indulged in sarcasms against Buckingham . This enraged both the favorite and the king , so that Bacon was led to understand that his possession of the Great Seal depended upon the favor ...
... favor ; but unwisely , in one of his communications , indulged in sarcasms against Buckingham . This enraged both the favorite and the king , so that Bacon was led to understand that his possession of the Great Seal depended upon the favor ...
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Page 283 - 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 71 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea : a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth," (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) " and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below," f so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 287 - 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 289 - ... 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 303 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 56 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 119 - Now, my co-mates and brothers in exile, Hath not old custom made this life more sweet Than that of painted pomp? Are not these woods More free from peril than the envious court? Here feel we but the penalty of Adam, — The seasons...
Page 74 - ... 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.
Page 177 - Surely every medicine is an innovation; and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils: for time is the greatest innovator; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 325 - And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men; which have sought to express the images of their minds, where those of their bodies have failed. So the care of posterity is most in them that have no posterity.