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... experience and little in books ; so as they are neither repetitions nor fancies . But , however , I shall most humbly desire your Highness to accept them in gracious part and to conceive , that if I cannot rest but must shew my dutiful ...
... experience and little in books ; so as they are neither repetitions nor fancies . But , however , I shall most humbly desire your Highness to accept them in gracious part and to conceive , that if I cannot rest but must shew my dutiful ...
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... experience which in my service and access I have had of your continual grace and favour . " In 1610 Bacon published his treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients . It is a work of great original power and creative fancy . He endeavours to ...
... experience which in my service and access I have had of your continual grace and favour . " In 1610 Bacon published his treatise on the Wisdom of the Ancients . It is a work of great original power and creative fancy . He endeavours to ...
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... experience . He that travelleth into a country , before he hath some entrance into the language , goeth to school , and not to travel . That young men travel under some tutor , or grave servant , I allow well ; so that he be such a one ...
... experience . He that travelleth into a country , before he hath some entrance into the language , goeth to school , and not to travel . That young men travel under some tutor , or grave servant , I allow well ; so that he be such a one ...
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... experience : growing silk , likewise , if any be , is a likely commo- dity : pitch and tar , where store of firs and pines are , will not fail ; so drugs and sweet woods , where they are , cannot but yield great profit : soap - ashes ...
... experience : growing silk , likewise , if any be , is a likely commo- dity : pitch and tar , where store of firs and pines are , will not fail ; so drugs and sweet woods , where they are , cannot but yield great profit : soap - ashes ...
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... experience of age , in things that fall within the compass of it , directeth them : but in new things abuseth 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 ...
... experience of age , in things that fall within the compass of it , directeth them : but in new things abuseth 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 ...
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Page 72 - 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. 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...
Page 7 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 26 - He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.
Page 41 - How many things are there which a man cannot, with any face or comeliness, say or do himself! A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Page 23 - Democritus and Epicurus. For it is a thousand times more credible, that four mutable elements, and one immutable fifth essence, duly and eternally placed, need no God, than that an army of infinite small portions or seeds unplaced, should have produced this order and beauty without a divine marshal. The scripture saith, The fool hath said in his heart, there is no God...
Page 73 - Histories make men wise ; poets, witty ; the mathematics, subtile ; natural philosophy, deep ; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend ; " Abeunt studia in mores;" i nay, there is no stond or impediment in the wit, but may be wrought out by fit studies...
Page 51 - I CANNOT call riches better than the baggage of virtue ; the Roman word is better, impedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared, nor left behind, but it hindereth the march ; yea, and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory. Of great riches there is no real use, except it be in the distribution ; the rest is but conceit. So saith Solomon : "Where much is, there are many to consume it, and what hath the owner but the sight of it with...
Page 10 - HE that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Page 25 - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Page 1 - And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.