Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and EvilMacmillan and Company, 1879 - 388 pages |
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Page 61
... hold Mens hearts by Hopes , when it cannot by Satisfaction : And when it can handle things , in such manner , as no Evill shall appeare so peremptory , but that it hath some Out - let of Hope : Which is the lesse hard to doe , because ...
... hold Mens hearts by Hopes , when it cannot by Satisfaction : And when it can handle things , in such manner , as no Evill shall appeare so peremptory , but that it hath some Out - let of Hope : Which is the lesse hard to doe , because ...
Page 62
... hold with the Proceeding of the State , be full of Discord and Faction ; And those that are against it , be entire and united . I have noted , that some witty and sharpe Speeches , which have fallen from Princes , have given fire to ...
... hold with the Proceeding of the State , be full of Discord and Faction ; And those that are against it , be entire and united . I have noted , that some witty and sharpe Speeches , which have fallen from Princes , have given fire to ...
Page 89
... hold taken : Or at least turneth the Handle of the Bottle , first to be received , and after the Belly , which is hard to claspe . There is surely no greater Wisedome , then well to time the Beginnings , and Onsets of Things . Dangers ...
... hold taken : Or at least turneth the Handle of the Bottle , first to be received , and after the Belly , which is hard to claspe . There is surely no greater Wisedome , then well to time the Beginnings , and Onsets of Things . Dangers ...
Page 91
... ambos nudos ad ignotos , & videbis ; doth scarce hold for them . And because these Cunning Men , are like Haberdashers of Small Wares , it is not amisse to set forth their Shop . It is a point of Cunning ; to wait upon.
... ambos nudos ad ignotos , & videbis ; doth scarce hold for them . And because these Cunning Men , are like Haberdashers of Small Wares , it is not amisse to set forth their Shop . It is a point of Cunning ; to wait upon.
Page 94
... hold of it , and found Meanes , it was told the Queene ; Who hearing of a Declination of a Monarchy , tooke it so ill , as she would never after heare of the others Suit . There is a Cunning , which we in England call , The Turning of ...
... hold of it , and found Meanes , it was told the Queene ; Who hearing of a Declination of a Monarchy , tooke it so ill , as she would never after heare of the others Suit . There is a Cunning , which we in England call , The Turning of ...
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Adagia added Æsop amongst Antith Atheisme Augustus Cæsar Bacon better Businesse Cæsar cause Certainly Cicero colour commeth commonly Comp couler Counsell Counsellours Cunning danger Discontentments Discourse doth edition Envy Epimetheus Errours ESSAY Estate evill Factions Fame farre Favour Fortune Frend Frendship Garden generall goeth Greatnesse hath haue himselfe Hist Honour inferiour Iudge Iudgement kinde Kingdom of Britain Kings Latin adds likewise lviii maketh Matter Meanes Minde Moneyes Naturall Nature Nobility Number omitted Opinion Ovid Persons Place Plutarch Poets Pompey Princes principall quæ quam quod Religion Riches saith Seditions seemeth selfe setled severall shew side sometimes Sonne Sort speake Speech Subiects Sunne sunt sure Sutes Tacitus therfore Things Tiberius tion true unto Usury Vertue Vespasian vpon Vulgate Warre Weaknesse wherein whereof wise Wisedome xlvi xxix xxvii xxxiii