The essays; or, Counsels moral, economical, and political, by sir F. Bacon |
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... matter , and is at a stand , to think what should be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell . This ...
... matter , and is at a stand , to think what should be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for pleasure , as with poets , nor for advantage , as with the merchant , but for the lie's sake . But I cannot tell . This ...
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... of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath - work ever since , is the illumination of his spirit . First , he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos 2 OF TRUTH .
... of the days , was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath - work ever since , is the illumination of his spirit . First , he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos 2 OF TRUTH .
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... matter or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently ...
... matter or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen . The poet that beautified the sect , that was otherwise inferior to the rest , saith yet excellently ...
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... a light thing to be vouched in so serious a matter , but yet it expresseth well the deformity . There is a master of scoffing , that , in his catalogue It of books of a feigned library , sets down the 8 OF UNITY IN RELIGION .
... a light thing to be vouched in so serious a matter , but yet it expresseth well the deformity . There is a master of scoffing , that , in his catalogue It of books of a feigned library , sets down the 8 OF UNITY IN RELIGION .
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... matter , but following and party . Contrariwise certain Laodiceans , and luke - warm persons , think they may accommodate points of Religion by middle ways , and taking part of both , and witty reconcilements ; as if they would make an ...
... matter , but following and party . Contrariwise certain Laodiceans , and luke - warm persons , think they may accommodate points of Religion by middle ways , and taking part of both , and witty reconcilements ; as if they would make an ...
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Page 3 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tost upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below : but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below:" so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride.
Page 191 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 1 - WHAT is Truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness', and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting.
Page 64 - IT were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an opinion as is unworthy of him; for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely: and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose:
Page 4 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Page 174 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.
Page 163 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 5 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak, but it mates ' and masters the fear of death; and therefore death is no such terrible enemy when a man hath so many attendants about him that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death ; Love slights it; Honour aspireth to it; Grief flieth to it; Fear pre-occupateth it...
Page 38 - But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.
Page 93 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation...