The Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ... Revised from the Early Copies the References Supplied and a Few Notes by S. W. SingerBell & Daldy, 1857 - 367 pages |
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... world is in the Effays alone that the mind of Bacon is brought into im- mediate contact with the minds of ordmary readers . There he opens an exoteric school and talks to plain men in language which everybody under- ftands , about ...
... world is in the Effays alone that the mind of Bacon is brought into im- mediate contact with the minds of ordmary readers . There he opens an exoteric school and talks to plain men in language which everybody under- ftands , about ...
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... world was published in 1625 , the year before his death . The first Edition is a diminutive volume in 12o , the title of which runs as follows : " Effaies . Re- ligious Meditations , Places of perswasion and dif- fwafion . Seene and ...
... world was published in 1625 , the year before his death . The first Edition is a diminutive volume in 12o , the title of which runs as follows : " Effaies . Re- ligious Meditations , Places of perswasion and dif- fwafion . Seene and ...
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... world an enlarged copy , containing thirty - eight Effays . This volume is a fmall 8vo . printed in a large type , the title being " The Effaies of Sr Francis Bacon , knight , the King's Solliciter Generall . Imprinted at London by John ...
... world an enlarged copy , containing thirty - eight Effays . This volume is a fmall 8vo . printed in a large type , the title being " The Effaies of Sr Francis Bacon , knight , the King's Solliciter Generall . Imprinted at London by John ...
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... world will not ; by the often printing of the former . Miffing my Brother , I found you next in respect of bond both of neare alliance , and of straight friendship and so- cietie , and particularly of communication in ftu- dies ...
... world will not ; by the often printing of the former . Miffing my Brother , I found you next in respect of bond both of neare alliance , and of straight friendship and so- cietie , and particularly of communication in ftu- dies ...
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... world . They tell me my Latin is turned into Silver , and become current : had you been here , you should have been my Inquifitor before it came forth ; but I think the greatest Inquifitor in Spain will allow it . But one thing you must ...
... world . They tell me my Latin is turned into Silver , and become current : had you been here , you should have been my Inquifitor before it came forth ; but I think the greatest Inquifitor in Spain will allow it . But one thing you must ...
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Page 3 - 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. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 101 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark, but true, " Cor " ne edito," — " eat not the heart." Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts : but one thing is most admirable...
Page 2 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves...
Page 37 - Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason; but are impatient of privateness even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn.
Page 17 - 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 161 - Young men are fitter to invent than to judge; fitter for execution than for counsel; and fitter for new projects than for settled business.
Page 7 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis...
Page 102 - ... certain it is that 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 190 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 189 - 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.