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... Cicero . One does not know which to admire most in his writings , the strength of reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination 1 . " Bacon improved so much the melody , elegance and force of English prose that we may apply to ...
... Cicero . One does not know which to admire most in his writings , the strength of reason , force of style , or brightness of imagination 1 . " Bacon improved so much the melody , elegance and force of English prose that we may apply to ...
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... Cicero saith ; " Quam volumus , licet , Patres conscripti , nos amemus ; tamen nec numero Hispanos , nec robore Gallos , nec calliditate Pœnos . nec artibus Græcos , nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et terræ domestico nativoque sensu ...
... Cicero saith ; " Quam volumus , licet , Patres conscripti , nos amemus ; tamen nec numero Hispanos , nec robore Gallos , nec calliditate Pœnos . nec artibus Græcos , nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et terræ domestico nativoque sensu ...
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... Cicero says of Pompey ) are , amantes sine rivali , are many times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves , they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune , whose wings ...
... Cicero says of Pompey ) are , amantes sine rivali , are many times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves , they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune , whose wings ...
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... Cicero saith of Piso , that when he answered him he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead , and bent the other down to his chin ; " respondes , altero ad frontem sub- lato , altero ad mentum depresso supercilio , crudelitatem tibi ...
... Cicero saith of Piso , that when he answered him he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead , and bent the other down to his chin ; " respondes , altero ad frontem sub- lato , altero ad mentum depresso supercilio , crudelitatem tibi ...
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... Cicero's Philippics , called him " venefica , " " witch ; as if he had enchanted Cæsar . Augustus raised Agrippa ( though of mean birth ) to that height , as , when he consulted with Mæcenas about the marriage of his daughter Julia ...
... Cicero's Philippics , called him " venefica , " " witch ; as if he had enchanted Cæsar . Augustus raised Agrippa ( though of mean birth ) to that height , as , when he consulted with Mæcenas about the marriage of his daughter Julia ...
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Page 18 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 171 - Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted, nor to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider. 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 108 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 65 - Men in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Page 111 - ... 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 151 - ... them. The errors of young men are the ruin of business; but the errors of aged men amount but to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
Page 188 - 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 20 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 184 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice, and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
Page 171 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.