Essays: And Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1884 - 425 lappuses |
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1.–5. rezultāts no 56.
xv. lappuse
... seems to have undervalued this little work , which for two centuries has been favorably received by every lover of ... seem to have been pirated , were published ; and after his death , two spurious essays , " Of Death , " and " Of a ...
... seems to have undervalued this little work , which for two centuries has been favorably received by every lover of ... seem to have been pirated , were published ; and after his death , two spurious essays , " Of Death , " and " Of a ...
xxiii. lappuse
... seems , in former times , to have been much valued . The fables , abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty , are thirty - one in number , of which a part of The Sirens , or Pleasures , may be selected as a specimen . Of ...
... seems , in former times , to have been much valued . The fables , abounding with a union of deep thought and poetic beauty , are thirty - one in number , of which a part of The Sirens , or Pleasures , may be selected as a specimen . Of ...
xxvi. lappuse
... seem to be , like a thin rarefied air , which , from the traditions of more ancient nations , fell into the flutes of the Grecians . " Of this tract , Archbishop Tenison , in his Baconiana , says : - " In the seventh place , I may ...
... seem to be , like a thin rarefied air , which , from the traditions of more ancient nations , fell into the flutes of the Grecians . " Of this tract , Archbishop Tenison , in his Baconiana , says : - " In the seventh place , I may ...
xxvii. lappuse
... seem to be so by his lord- ship's wit , in the opening and applying of them . But because the first ground of it is poetical story ... seems expressly calculated to justify their admiration ; and , on the other hand , their PREFACE . xxvii.
... seem to be so by his lord- ship's wit , in the opening and applying of them . But because the first ground of it is poetical story ... seems expressly calculated to justify their admiration ; and , on the other hand , their PREFACE . xxvii.
41. lappuse
... seem that a union of two qualities almost oppo- site to each other a going forth of the thoughts in two directions , and a sudden transfer of ideas from a remote sta- tion in one to an equally distant one in the other — is required to ...
... seem that a union of two qualities almost oppo- site to each other a going forth of the thoughts in two directions , and a sudden transfer of ideas from a remote sta- tion in one to an equally distant one in the other — is required to ...
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Achelous actions affection alludes amongst ancient Arthur Gorges arts atheism Augustus Cæsar beautiful better body boldness Cæsar called cause Certainly commonly corruption counsel court custom danger death denotes dissimulation divine doth earth England envy Epicurus Essays evil fame favor fear fortune Francis Bacon gods hand hath Henry Hippomenes honor human Instauratio Magna invented judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter justice justly kind kings Latin likewise Lord Bacon maketh man's mankind matter means men's ment mind moral motion natural philosophy nature never noble Novum Organum observed opinion Ovid passion Pentheus persons philosophy pleasure poets princes Prometheus Queen's Counsel reason received religion revenge riches saith secret servants side speak speech Tacitus thereof things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth unto usury Vespasian virtue whence wisdom wise words
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27. lappuse - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
267. lappuse - 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.
56. lappuse - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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.
240. lappuse - There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. A man cannot tell whether Apelles or Albert Durer were the more trifler ; whereof the one would make a personage by geometrical proportions, the other, by taking the best parts out of divers faces to make one excellent.
58. lappuse - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
266. lappuse - 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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
57. lappuse - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
59. lappuse - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
66. lappuse - AND unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write • These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God ; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot.
168. lappuse - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.