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... Latin quotations in such a form as seemed to suit best the English idiom and to fall best into the English context ; not tying myself to literal translation , but rather preferring to vary the expression 40 PREFACE TO Of Fortune.
... Latin quotations in such a form as seemed to suit best the English idiom and to fall best into the English context ; not tying myself to literal translation , but rather preferring to vary the expression 40 PREFACE TO Of Fortune.
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... fortune , I have been touched , yea and possessed , with an extreme wonder at those your virtues and faculties which ... fortune ; a virtuous disposition with a for- tunate regiment ; a virtuous expectation ( when time was ) of your ...
... fortune , I have been touched , yea and possessed , with an extreme wonder at those your virtues and faculties which ... fortune ; a virtuous disposition with a for- tunate regiment ; a virtuous expectation ( when time was ) of your ...
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... fortune of a King , the knowledge and illumination of a Priest , and the learning and universality of a Philosopher . This propriety inherent and individual attribute in your Majesty deserveth to be expressed not only in the fame and ...
... fortune of a King , the knowledge and illumination of a Priest , and the learning and universality of a Philosopher . This propriety inherent and individual attribute in your Majesty deserveth to be expressed not only in the fame and ...
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... fortune , and giveth them occasion to pleasure and displeasure ; or because it exerciseth some faculty wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleasing conceits to- ward themselves ; or because it advanceth ...
... fortune , and giveth them occasion to pleasure and displeasure ; or because it exerciseth some faculty wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleasing conceits to- ward themselves ; or because it advanceth ...
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... fortune , or from their manners , or from the nature of their studies . For the first , it is not in their power ; and the second is accidental ; the third only is proper to be handled . But because we are not in hand with true measure ...
... fortune , or from their manners , or from the nature of their studies . For the first , it is not in their power ; and the second is accidental ; the third only is proper to be handled . But because we are not in hand with true measure ...
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Page 45 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 60 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Page 88 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Page 288 - The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Page 74 - ... if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits ; how much more are letters to be magnified, which, as ships, pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Page 54 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...
Page 135 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Page 79 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Page 554 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Page 72 - It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like; and, therefore, I will conclude with that which hath...