Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page 11
... Things , Unity , and Uniformity . The other is , when the Matter of the Point Controverted is great ; but it is driven to an over - great Subtilty , and Obscurity ; So that it becommeth a Thing , rather Ingenious , then Substantiall . A ...
... Things , Unity , and Uniformity . The other is , when the Matter of the Point Controverted is great ; but it is driven to an over - great Subtilty , and Obscurity ; So that it becommeth a Thing , rather Ingenious , then Substantiall . A ...
Page 12
... things , are like the Iron and Clay , in the toes of Nabucadnezars Image ; They may Cleave , but they will not Incorporate . Concerning the Meanes of procuring Unity ; Men must beware , that in the Procuring , or Muniting , of Religious ...
... things , are like the Iron and Clay , in the toes of Nabucadnezars Image ; They may Cleave , but they will not Incorporate . Concerning the Meanes of procuring Unity ; Men must beware , that in the Procuring , or Muniting , of Religious ...
Page 14
... things pre- sent , and to come : Therefore , they doe but trifle with themselves , that labour in past matters . There is no man , doth a wrong , for the wrongs sake ; But therby to purchase himselfe , Profit , or Pleasure , or Honour ...
... things pre- sent , and to come : Therefore , they doe but trifle with themselves , that labour in past matters . There is no man , doth a wrong , for the wrongs sake ; But therby to purchase himselfe , Profit , or Pleasure , or Honour ...
Page 16
... things , that belong to Adversity , are to be admired . Bona Rerum Secundarum , Optabilia ; Adversarum , Mirabilia ... thing , which is figured in that Strange Fiction , of the Ancient Poets , which seemeth not to be without mystery ...
... things , that belong to Adversity , are to be admired . Bona Rerum Secundarum , Optabilia ; Adversarum , Mirabilia ... thing , which is figured in that Strange Fiction , of the Ancient Poets , which seemeth not to be without mystery ...
Page 18
... Things are to be laid open , and what to be secretted , and what to be shewed at Halfe lights , and to whom , and when , ( which indeed are Arts of State , and Arts of Life , as Tacitus well calleth them ) to him , A Habit of ...
... Things are to be laid open , and what to be secretted , and what to be shewed at Halfe lights , and to whom , and when , ( which indeed are Arts of State , and Arts of Life , as Tacitus well calleth them ) to him , A Habit of ...
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