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Page 176
And , certainly those degenerate arts and shifts , whereby many counsellors and
governors gain both favour with their masters and estimation with the vulgar ,
deserve no better name than fiddling ; being things rather pleasing for the time ,
and ...
And , certainly those degenerate arts and shifts , whereby many counsellors and
governors gain both favour with their masters and estimation with the vulgar ,
deserve no better name than fiddling ; being things rather pleasing for the time ,
and ...
Page 182
It is certain , that sedentary and within - door arts , and delicate manufactures (
that require rather the finger than the arm ) , have in their nature a contrariety to a
military disposition . And generally , all warlike people are a little idle , and love ...
It is certain , that sedentary and within - door arts , and delicate manufactures (
that require rather the finger than the arm ) , have in their nature a contrariety to a
military disposition . And generally , all warlike people are a little idle , and love ...
Page 183
That which cometh nearest to it , is to leave those arts chiefly to strangers ( which
for that purpose are the more easily to be received ) , and to contain the principal
bulk of the vulgar natives within those three kinds , — tillers of the ground ; free ...
That which cometh nearest to it , is to leave those arts chiefly to strangers ( which
for that purpose are the more easily to be received ) , and to contain the principal
bulk of the vulgar natives within those three kinds , — tillers of the ground ; free ...
Page 190
Physicians are some of them so pleasing and conformable to the humour of the
patient , as they press not the true cure of the disease ; and some other are so
regular in proceeding according to art for the disease , as they respect not ...
Physicians are some of them so pleasing and conformable to the humour of the
patient , as they press not the true cure of the disease ; and some other are so
regular in proceeding according to art for the disease , as they respect not ...
Page 204
... This is the lad that shall enjoy the crown for which we strive . When I was in
France , I heard from one Dr . Pena , that the Queen Mother , who was given to
curious arts , caused the King her husband ' s nativity to be calculated , under a
false ...
... This is the lad that shall enjoy the crown for which we strive . When I was in
France , I heard from one Dr . Pena , that the Queen Mother , who was given to
curious arts , caused the King her husband ' s nativity to be calculated , under a
false ...
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Page 253 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 252 - 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.
Page 132 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion ;* for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no further; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Page 84 - weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to " say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward ".towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks " from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find
Page 253 - 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 82 - Fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum dcemonum [devil's-wine] , because it filleth the imagination; and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt ; such as we spake of before.
Page 137 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) the good be not taken away with the bad, which commonly is done when the people is the reformer. XVIII. Of Travel TRAVEL, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience.
Page 198 - I CANNOT call Riches better than the baggage of virtue. The Roman word is better, im-pedimenta. For as the baggage is to an army, so is riches to virtue. It cannot be spared nor left behind, but it hindereth the march; yea and the care of it sometimes loseth or disturbeth the victory.
Page 254 - ... wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 226 - ... proportions; the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent. Such personages, I think, would please nobody but the painter that made them; not but I think a painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music), and not by rule.
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| Title | Literary and professional works Volume 12 of The Works of Francis Bacon, Douglas Denon Heath |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | Robert Leslie Ellis |
| Publisher | Hurd and Houghton, 1864 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 18 Jul 2007 |
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