The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Translations of philosophical works, v. 1-2. 1883-1889Longmans, 1889 - Philosophy, English |
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Page 90 - So likewise ye, except ye utter by the tongue words easy to be understood, how shall it be known what is spoken ? for ye shall speak into the air.
Page 29 - I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them that despitefully use you, and persecute you; that ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Page 49 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 437 - Heaven and earth shall pass away, but the Word of the Lord shall not pass away.
Page 86 - ... he that commands the sea is at great liberty, and may take as much and as little of the war as he will; whereas those that be strongest by land, are manj tiroes, nevertheless, in great straits.
Page 117 - heaven and earth shall pass away, but my word shall not pass...
Page 86 - No body can be healthful without exercise, neither natural body nor politic; and certainly to a kingdom or estate, a just and honorable war is the true exercise. A civil war, indeed, is like the heat of a fever; but a foreign war is like the heat of exercise, and serveth to keep the body in health ; for in a slothful peace, both courages will effeminate and manners corrupt.
Page 515 - ... calculations answer. But if it be granted that the earth moves, it would seem more natural to suppose that there is no system at all, but scattered globes, according to the opinion of those I have already mentioned, than to constitute a system in which the sun is the centre. And this the consent of ages and of antiquity has rather embraced and approved. For the opinion concerning the motion of the earth is not new, but revived from the ancients, as I said ; whereas the opinion that the sun is...
Page 515 - Nevertheless, in the system of Copernicus there are found many and great inconveniences ; for both the loading of the earth with a triple motion is very incommodious, and the separation of the sun from the company of the planets, with which it has so many passions in common, is likewise a difficulty, and the introduction of so much immobility into nature, by representing the sun and stars as...
Page 57 - Thus saith the Lord God ; Behold, I am against thee, Pharaoh king of Egypt, the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which hath said, My river is mine own, and I have made it for myself.