Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, 1. sējumsC. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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33. lappuse
... terrific than death itself . Consider how often you repeat the same things ; the desire of death may arise not only from fortitude , or misery , but from satiety . dolours of death . But above all , believe it THE ESSAYS . 33.
... terrific than death itself . Consider how often you repeat the same things ; the desire of death may arise not only from fortitude , or misery , but from satiety . dolours of death . But above all , believe it THE ESSAYS . 33.
41. lappuse
... desire , to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men come to greater pains , and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities ...
... desire , to seek power and to lose liberty , or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self . The rising unto place is laborious , and by pains men come to greater pains , and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities ...
45. lappuse
... desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall , the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ; but in charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . . . . . . Errors , indeed , in this virtue ...
... desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall , the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall ; but in charity there is no excess , neither can angel or man come in danger by it . . . . . . Errors , indeed , in this virtue ...
50. lappuse
... desire , which makes their minds more languishing and have many repre- sentations of perils and shadows , which make ... desires , and set their hearts upon toys - sometimes upon a building , sometimes upon erecting of an order ...
... desire , which makes their minds more languishing and have many repre- sentations of perils and shadows , which make ... desires , and set their hearts upon toys - sometimes upon a building , sometimes upon erecting of an order ...
53. lappuse
... desire of change that pretendeth the re- formation . And lastly , that the novelty , though it be not rejected , yet be held for a suspect ; and as the Scripture saith , ' That we make a stand upon the ancient way , and then look about ...
... desire of change that pretendeth the re- formation . And lastly , that the novelty , though it be not rejected , yet be held for a suspect ; and as the Scripture saith , ' That we make a stand upon the ancient way , and then look about ...
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78. lappuse - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
49. lappuse - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
81. lappuse - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised ' than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
36. lappuse - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
37. lappuse - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
37. lappuse - Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
60. lappuse - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
47. lappuse - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ; for, take an example of a dog and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God or melior natura...
34. lappuse - Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, (much too high for a heathen,) " It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God :" — " Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.
46. lappuse - But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...