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Page xi
... wisdom , " and says his writings are still as delightful and wonderful as they ever were , and his authority will have no end : - " and as the result of all study , and the consummation of all wisdom , Bacon's Essays , to be read and ...
... wisdom , " and says his writings are still as delightful and wonderful as they ever were , and his authority will have no end : - " and as the result of all study , and the consummation of all wisdom , Bacon's Essays , to be read and ...
Page xiii
... wisdom and policy of government , he that shall note and observe the pru- dent temper she useth in admitting access ; of the one side maintaining the majesty of her degree , and on the other side not prejudicing herself by looking to ...
... wisdom and policy of government , he that shall note and observe the pru- dent temper she useth in admitting access ; of the one side maintaining the majesty of her degree , and on the other side not prejudicing herself by looking to ...
Page xvii
... wisdom of the highest and most sterling quality . He opens the first discourse in a manner which must have somewhat pazzled his pedantic master . " I do not find it strange , excellent king , that when Heraclitus , he that was surnamed ...
... wisdom of the highest and most sterling quality . He opens the first discourse in a manner which must have somewhat pazzled his pedantic master . " I do not find it strange , excellent king , that when Heraclitus , he that was surnamed ...
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... wisdom almost lost . In the Articles or Considerations touching the Union of the Kingdoms , he seems to have abandoned the magic of the Persian and political chemistry , " for his Majesty's better ser- vice . " He alludes however to the ...
... wisdom almost lost . In the Articles or Considerations touching the Union of the Kingdoms , he seems to have abandoned the magic of the Persian and political chemistry , " for his Majesty's better ser- vice . " He alludes however to the ...
Page xx
... wisdom by simpli- city , strength by suffering , dignity by lowliness ? Who is there that counts it first to be last , something to be nothing , and reckons himself of great command in that he is a servant ? Yet God , when he meant to ...
... wisdom by simpli- city , strength by suffering , dignity by lowliness ? Who is there that counts it first to be last , something to be nothing , and reckons himself of great command in that he is a servant ? Yet God , when he meant to ...
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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.