The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 páginas |
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... Italian , and into Latin by some of his friends , amongst whom were Hacket , Bishop of Lichfield , and his constant affectionate friend , Ben Jonson . His own estimate of the value of this work is thus stated in his letter to the Bishop ...
... Italian , and into Latin by some of his friends , amongst whom were Hacket , Bishop of Lichfield , and his constant affectionate friend , Ben Jonson . His own estimate of the value of this work is thus stated in his letter to the Bishop ...
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... Italian , and dedicated to Cosmo de Medici , by Tobie Mathew ; and in the following year the Essays were translated into French by Sir Arthur Gorges , and printed in London . Wisdom of the Ancients . In the year 1609 , as a relaxation ...
... Italian , and dedicated to Cosmo de Medici , by Tobie Mathew ; and in the following year the Essays were translated into French by Sir Arthur Gorges , and printed in London . Wisdom of the Ancients . In the year 1609 , as a relaxation ...
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... Italian G. Bill 66 66 1619 English J. Bill 66 66 1620 66 66 66 66 1633 Latin F. Maire 1634 66 1638 66 1691 1804 French F. Kingston E. Griffin 66 H. Wetstein H. Frantin Lug . Bat . London 66 Amsterdam 12mo . Dijon 8vo . 66 66 Folio ...
... Italian G. Bill 66 66 1619 English J. Bill 66 66 1620 66 66 66 66 1633 Latin F. Maire 1634 66 1638 66 1691 1804 French F. Kingston E. Griffin 66 H. Wetstein H. Frantin Lug . Bat . London 66 Amsterdam 12mo . Dijon 8vo . 66 66 Folio ...
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... Italian a volume of sermons on fate and freewill , written by Bernardo Ochino , an Italian reformer . Francis Bacon , the youngest of five sons , inherited the classical learning and taste of both his parents . He was born at York House ...
... Italian a volume of sermons on fate and freewill , written by Bernardo Ochino , an Italian reformer . Francis Bacon , the youngest of five sons , inherited the classical learning and taste of both his parents . He was born at York House ...
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... Italy . Italy was then the coun- try in which human knowledge in all its branches was most successfully cultivated . It is related by Signor Cancellieri that Bacon , when at Rome , pre- sented himself as a candidate to the Academy of ...
... Italy . Italy was then the coun- try in which human knowledge in all its branches was most successfully cultivated . It is related by Signor Cancellieri that Bacon , when at Rome , pre- sented himself as a candidate to the Academy of ...
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Página 23 - 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.
Página 227 - 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.
Página 205 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Página 31 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 55 - It is as natural to die as to be born, and to a little infant perhaps the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit is like one that is wounded in hot blood, who for the time scarce feels the hurt' and therefore, a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Página 228 - 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.
Página 66 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página 50 - 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.
Página 52 - 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.
Página 138 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; and if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end...