The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16W. Pickering, 1834 |
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... hand , ( c ) that he was frail , and did partake of the abuses of the times ; and surely he was a partaker of their severities also . The great cause of his suffering is to some a secret . I leave them to find it out by his words to ...
... hand , ( c ) that he was frail , and did partake of the abuses of the times ; and surely he was a partaker of their severities also . The great cause of his suffering is to some a secret . I leave them to find it out by his words to ...
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... hand to men of all fortunes ; when the nation had emerged from the dark superstitions of popery ; when peace , throughout all Europe , permitted the enjoyment of foreign travel and free ingress to foreign scholars ; and , above all ...
... hand to men of all fortunes ; when the nation had emerged from the dark superstitions of popery ; when peace , throughout all Europe , permitted the enjoyment of foreign travel and free ingress to foreign scholars ; and , above all ...
Page xx
... hand thereunto early , without waste of years ; upon such survey made , it may be my case may not seem ordinary , no more than my suit , and so more beseeming unto it . As I forced myself to say this in excuse of my motion , lest it ...
... hand thereunto early , without waste of years ; upon such survey made , it may be my case may not seem ordinary , no more than my suit , and so more beseeming unto it . As I forced myself to say this in excuse of my motion , lest it ...
Page xliii
... hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness , which I had continual sense and feeling of ; yet , because I had more means of absolution than the younger sort , and more leisure than the greater sort , I did think it not ...
... hand shall soon find , or much less of my own unableness , which I had continual sense and feeling of ; yet , because I had more means of absolution than the younger sort , and more leisure than the greater sort , I did think it not ...
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... hand , as my lord of Leicester had , and continued him still about you for society to yourself , and for an honour ... hands , may be a kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly . And therefore if you would imponere ...
... hand , as my lord of Leicester had , and continued him still about you for society to yourself , and for an honour ... hands , may be a kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly . And therefore if you would imponere ...
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Page xxxix - 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 xvi - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Page cdlix - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, 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 differences, let him study the Schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove...
Page xxix - ... more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Page cdxliv - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Page vii - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who — having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator,) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of Nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs...
Page ccxlv - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Page ccxxxvi - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand, and to rest himself ; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...