Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page 125
... Arts , and delicate Manufactures ( that require rather the Finger , then the Arme ) have , in their Nature , a Contrariety , to a Military disposition . And generally , all Warlike People , are a little idle ; And love Danger better ...
... Arts , and delicate Manufactures ( that require rather the Finger , then the Arme ) have , in their Nature , a Contrariety , to a Military disposition . And generally , all Warlike People , are a little idle ; And love Danger better ...
Page 133
... Art , for the Disease , as they respect not sufficiently the Condition of the Patient . Take one of a Middle Temper ; Or if it may not be found in one Man , combine two of either sort : And forget not to call , aswell the best ...
... Art , for the Disease , as they respect not sufficiently the Condition of the Patient . Take one of a Middle Temper ; Or if it may not be found in one Man , combine two of either sort : And forget not to call , aswell the best ...
Page 150
... Arts , caused the King her Husbands Nativitie , to be Calculated , under a false Name ; And the Astrologer gave a Iudgement , that he should be killed in a Duell ; At which the Queene laughed , thinking her Husband , to be above ...
... Arts , caused the King her Husbands Nativitie , to be Calculated , under a false Name ; And the Astrologer gave a Iudgement , that he should be killed in a Duell ; At which the Queene laughed , thinking her Husband , to be above ...
Page 218
... Arts of Ostentation . And amongst those Arts , there is none better , then that which Plinius Secundus speaketh of ; which is to be Liberall of Praise and Commendation to others , in that , wherein a Mans Selfe hath any Perfection . For ...
... Arts of Ostentation . And amongst those Arts , there is none better , then that which Plinius Secundus speaketh of ; which is to be Liberall of Praise and Commendation to others , in that , wherein a Mans Selfe hath any Perfection . For ...
Page 238
... Arts and Merchandize . Learning hath his Infancy , when it is but beginning , and almost Childish : Then his Youth , when it is Luxuriant and Iuven- ile : Then his Strength of yeares , when it is Solide and Reduced : And lastly , his ...
... Arts and Merchandize . Learning hath his Infancy , when it is but beginning , and almost Childish : Then his Youth , when it is Luxuriant and Iuven- ile : Then his Strength of yeares , when it is Solide and Reduced : And lastly , his ...
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