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Page xi
... desires to meddle as little as he can in the King's causes , ' and to ' put his ambition wholly upon his pen . ' He is engaged on a work concerning the ' Invention of Sciences , ' which he has digested in two parts , one being entitled ...
... desires to meddle as little as he can in the King's causes , ' and to ' put his ambition wholly upon his pen . ' He is engaged on a work concerning the ' Invention of Sciences , ' which he has digested in two parts , one being entitled ...
Page xxx
... desire to do something , even though they could not do what they wished — the intolerable disgust at seeing mediocrity pre- ferred to genius : And right perfection wrongfully disgraced , And strength by limping sway disabled ; And art ...
... desire to do something , even though they could not do what they wished — the intolerable disgust at seeing mediocrity pre- ferred to genius : And right perfection wrongfully disgraced , And strength by limping sway disabled ; And art ...
Page xxxv
... desires of the House of Commons , was interrupted by the king because he spoke in a style more extravagant than His ... desire an object and will not work for it it is the solecism of power to think to command the end and yet not to ...
... desires of the House of Commons , was interrupted by the king because he spoke in a style more extravagant than His ... desire an object and will not work for it it is the solecism of power to think to command the end and yet not to ...
Page xliv
... desire . Among other arts of a politician , he had written a letter to himself in the name of Essex for the express purpose of showing it to the Queen , so as to conciliate her to her fallen favourite ; nay , to make the forgery more ...
... desire . Among other arts of a politician , he had written a letter to himself in the name of Essex for the express purpose of showing it to the Queen , so as to conciliate her to her fallen favourite ; nay , to make the forgery more ...
Page xlvi
... desire to meddle as little as I can in the King's causes , His Majesty now abounding in counsel , and to follow my pri- vate thrift and practice . For as for any ambition , I do assure your Honour mine is quenched . My ambition now I ...
... desire to meddle as little as I can in the King's causes , His Majesty now abounding in counsel , and to follow my pri- vate thrift and practice . For as for any ambition , I do assure your Honour mine is quenched . My ambition now I ...
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Page 1 - 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 clxv - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty...
Page 89 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page clxvi - But howsoever these things are thus in men's depraved judgments and affections, yet truth, which only doth judge itself, teacheth that 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 clxvi - 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 13 - Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed ; for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 54 - They that deny a God destroy man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body, and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature.
Page 96 - ... for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart: the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things will continue after him. So that a man hath as it were two lives in his desires.
Page 1 - ... 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 clxvi - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.