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... excellent account of " the small volume , the best known and most popular of his works . It is also one of those where the superiority of his genius appears to the best advantage , the novelty and depth of his reflections often re ...
... excellent account of " the small volume , the best known and most popular of his works . It is also one of those where the superiority of his genius appears to the best advantage , the novelty and depth of his reflections often re ...
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... excellent good ; " still his censure of the collections of Stobæus and others , that they " draw much of the dregs , " is by no means inapplicable to his own . In fact they are unworthy of Bacon . Lord Byron has a curious memorandum in ...
... excellent good ; " still his censure of the collections of Stobæus and others , that they " draw much of the dregs , " is by no means inapplicable to his own . In fact they are unworthy of Bacon . Lord Byron has a curious memorandum in ...
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... excellent king , that when Heraclitus , he that was surnamed the obscure , set forth a certain book which is not now extant , many men took it for a dis- i course of nature , and many others took it for a treatise of policy . For there ...
... excellent king , that when Heraclitus , he that was surnamed the obscure , set forth a certain book which is not now extant , many men took it for a dis- i course of nature , and many others took it for a treatise of policy . For there ...
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... excellent a work ; wherein I will endeavour that that which I shall set down be nihil minus quam verba : for length and ornament of speech are to be used for persuasion of multitudes , and not for information of kings ; especially such ...
... excellent a work ; wherein I will endeavour that that which I shall set down be nihil minus quam verba : for length and ornament of speech are to be used for persuasion of multitudes , and not for information of kings ; especially such ...
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... excellent accompaniment to The Proposal itself . Although it be true , " he says in his letter to Bishop Andrews , “ I had a purpose to make a particular Digest , or recompilement of the laws of mine own nation ; yet because it is a ...
... excellent accompaniment to The Proposal itself . Although it be true , " he says in his letter to Bishop Andrews , “ I had a purpose to make a particular Digest , or recompilement of the laws of mine own nation ; yet because it is a ...
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Page 261 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Page 273 - 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 xxii - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 4 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page liii - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 274 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...
Page viii - 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 301 - 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 301 - 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 266 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.