Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page 54
... greatest , when Things grow to Equality ; As Naturall Tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia . And as there are cer- taine hollow Blasts of Winde , and secret Swel- lings of Seas , before a Tempest , so are there in States : Ille ...
... greatest , when Things grow to Equality ; As Naturall Tempests are greatest about the Equinoctia . And as there are cer- taine hollow Blasts of Winde , and secret Swel- lings of Seas , before a Tempest , so are there in States : Ille ...
Page 55
... greatest Contentment , are taken in ill Sense , and traduced : For that shewes the Envy great , as Tacitus saith ; Conflata magna Invidia , seu benè , seu malè , gesta premunt . Neither doth it follow , that because these Fames , are a ...
... greatest Contentment , are taken in ill Sense , and traduced : For that shewes the Envy great , as Tacitus saith ; Conflata magna Invidia , seu benè , seu malè , gesta premunt . Neither doth it follow , that because these Fames , are a ...
Page 56
... greatest persons , in a Government , ought to be , as the Motions of the Planets , under Primum Mobile ; ( accord- ing to the old Opinion :) which is , That Every of them , is carried swiftly , by the Highest Mo- tion , and softly in ...
... greatest persons , in a Government , ought to be , as the Motions of the Planets , under Primum Mobile ; ( accord- ing to the old Opinion :) which is , That Every of them , is carried swiftly , by the Highest Mo- tion , and softly in ...
Page 77
... greatest difficulty , is often in their owne Minde . For it is com- mon with Princes , ( saith Tacitus ) to will Con- tradictories . Sunt plerumque Regum voluntates vehementes , & inter se contraria . For it is the Solœcisme of Power ...
... greatest difficulty , is often in their owne Minde . For it is com- mon with Princes , ( saith Tacitus ) to will Con- tradictories . Sunt plerumque Regum voluntates vehementes , & inter se contraria . For it is the Solœcisme of Power ...
Page 81
... comprehended , in those two Remembrances : Memento quod es Homo ; And Memento quod es Deus , or Vice Dei : The one bridleth their Power , and the other their Will . V XX Of Counsell THE greatest Trust , betweene Man and Of Empire 81.
... comprehended , in those two Remembrances : Memento quod es Homo ; And Memento quod es Deus , or Vice Dei : The one bridleth their Power , and the other their Will . V XX Of Counsell THE greatest Trust , betweene Man and Of Empire 81.
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