Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page viii
... contrarie or infectious to the state of Religion , or manners , but rather ( as I suppose ) medicinable . Only I disliked now to put them out because they will bee like the late new halfe - pence1 , which viii Preface PREFACE.
... contrarie or infectious to the state of Religion , or manners , but rather ( as I suppose ) medicinable . Only I disliked now to put them out because they will bee like the late new halfe - pence1 , which viii Preface PREFACE.
Page xviii
... manner of the Jews , who call'd the words Adagies , or Observations of the Wise , Faithful Sayings ; that is , credible Propo- sitions worthy of firm Assent , and ready Acceptance . And ( as I think ) he alluded more particularly , in ...
... manner of the Jews , who call'd the words Adagies , or Observations of the Wise , Faithful Sayings ; that is , credible Propo- sitions worthy of firm Assent , and ready Acceptance . And ( as I think ) he alluded more particularly , in ...
Page xxiii
... manner in which in each successive edition the Essays were expanded and modi- fied . In addition to this I have quoted , where possible , any parallel passages which I had met with in other works of Bacon , and which appeared either to ...
... manner in which in each successive edition the Essays were expanded and modi- fied . In addition to this I have quoted , where possible , any parallel passages which I had met with in other works of Bacon , and which appeared either to ...
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... ; The Other , towards those , that are within . For the Former ; It is certaine , that Heresies , and Schismes , are of all others , the greatest Scandals ; yea more then Corruption of Manners . For as in the Naturall Body , a.
... ; The Other , towards those , that are within . For the Former ; It is certaine , that Heresies , and Schismes , are of all others , the greatest Scandals ; yea more then Corruption of Manners . For as in the Naturall Body , a.
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Francis Bacon William Aldis Wright. Manners . For as in the Naturall Body , a Wound or Solution of Continuity , is worse then a Corrupt Humor ; So in the Spirituall . So that nothing , doth so much keepe Men out of the Church , and drive ...
Francis Bacon William Aldis Wright. Manners . For as in the Naturall Body , a Wound or Solution of Continuity , is worse then a Corrupt Humor ; So in the Spirituall . So that nothing , doth so much keepe Men out of the Church , and drive ...
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Adagia added Æsop amongst Antith Atheisme Augustus Cæsar Bacon better Businesse Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero colour commeth commonly Comp couler Counsell Counsellours Cunning danger Discontentments Discourse doth edition Envy Epimetheus Errours ESSAY Estate evill Factions Fame farre Favour Fortune Frend Frendship Garden generall goeth Greatnesse hath haue himselfe Hist Honour inferiour Iudge Iudgement kinde Kingdom of Britain Kings Latin adds likewise lviii maketh Matter Meanes Minde Moneyes Naturall Nature Nobility Number omitted Opinion Ovid Persons Place Plutarch Poets Pompey Princes principall quæ quam quod Religion Riches saith Seditions seemeth selfe setled severall shew side sometimes Sonne Sort speake Speech Subiects Sunne sunt sure Sutes Tacitus therfore Things Tiberius tion true unto Usury Vertue Vespasian vpon Vulgate Warre Weaknesse wherein whereof wise Wisedome xlvi xxix xxvii xxxiii