The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 - Philosophy |
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... DUKE OF CORNWALL , EARL OF CHESTER , ETC. It may please your Highness , IN part of my acknowledgment to your Highness , I have endeavoured to do honour to the memory of the last King of England that was ancestor to the King your father ...
... DUKE OF CORNWALL , EARL OF CHESTER , ETC. It may please your Highness , IN part of my acknowledgment to your Highness , I have endeavoured to do honour to the memory of the last King of England that was ancestor to the King your father ...
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... Duke of Clarence , his brother ; the murderer of his two nephews ( one of them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him ) ; and vehemently suspected to have been the impoisoner of his wife , thereby ...
... Duke of Clarence , his brother ; the murderer of his two nephews ( one of them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him ) ; and vehemently suspected to have been the impoisoner of his wife , thereby ...
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... Duke of Clarence . This Edward was by the King's warrant delivered from the constable of the castle to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he was shut up ...
... Duke of Clarence . This Edward was by the King's warrant delivered from the constable of the castle to the hand of Sir Robert Willoughby ; and by him with all safety and diligence conveyed to the Tower of London , where he was shut up ...
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... Duke of Bedford ; Thomas the Lord Stanley ( the King's father - in - law ) Earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney Earl of Devon ; though the king had then 1 The Latin translation adds non pustulæ . 2 The word epidemic is mentioned by Sir T ...
... Duke of Bedford ; Thomas the Lord Stanley ( the King's father - in - law ) Earl of Derby ; and Edward Courtney Earl of Devon ; though the king had then 1 The Latin translation adds non pustulæ . 2 The word epidemic is mentioned by Sir T ...
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... Duke of Gloucester , calling himself The passage within brackets is taken from the MS .; where it is crossed out ; and against the last sentence is written in the margin , in a hand which I do not know ( not Bacon's , as it is supposed ...
... Duke of Gloucester , calling himself The passage within brackets is taken from the MS .; where it is crossed out ; and against the last sentence is written in the margin , in a hand which I do not know ( not Bacon's , as it is supposed ...
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Page 493 - 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.
Page 382 - 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 375 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 430 - 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.
Page 494 - 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 493 - 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.
Page 409 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism ; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion : for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Page 466 - In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it ; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times ; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves, so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice.
Page 483 - Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew.
Page 474 - 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.