The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

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Brown and Taggard, 1861
 

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Página 175 - spectatur. IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another : therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause ; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree. As if an annuity be granted pro consilio
Página 104 - FRANCIS BACON. The man of life upright, whose guiltless heart is free From all dishonest deeds and thoughts of vanity : The man whose silent days in harmless joys are spent, Whom hopes cannot delude, nor fortune discontent ; That man needs neither towers nor armour for defence, Nor secret vaults to fly from thunder's violence : He only can behold with
Página 104 - eyes The horrors of the deep and terrors of the skies ; Thus scorning all the care that Fate or Fortune brings, He makes the Heaven his book, his wisdom heavenly things ; Good thoughts his only friends, his life a well-spent
Página 32 - at large when they come to be used ; supplying authorities and examples by reference " Formulai are but decent and apt passages and conveyances of speech, which may serve indifferently for differing subjects ; as of preface, conclusion, digression, transition, excusation, &c. For as in buildings there is great pleasure and use in the well-casting of the
Página 226 - if I have some land wherein all these demonstrations are true, and some wherein part of them are true and part false, then shall they be intended words of true limitation to pass only those lands wherein all those circumstances are true. REGULA XIV. 1 Licet
Página 199 - hunger, this is no felony nor larceny. So if divers be in danger of drowning by the casting away of some boat or bark, and one of them get to some plank, or on the boat side to keep himself above water, and another to save his life thrust him from it,
Página 106 - affections still at home to please is a disease : To cross the seas to any foreign soil perils and toil. Wars with their noise affright us : when they cease, we are worse in peace. What then remains, but that we still should cry Not to be born, or being born to die. TRANSLATION
Página 270 - than the younger sort, and more leisure than the greater sort, I did think it not impossible to work some profitable effect : the rather because where an inferior wit is bent and constant upon one subject, he shall many times, with patience and meditation, dissolve and undo many of those knots which a greater wit, distracted with
Página 230 - intentionis cum facto parí» gradas. ALL crimes have their conception in a corrupt intent, and have their consummation and issuing in some particular fact ; which though it be not the fact at which the intention of the malefactor levelled, yet the law giveth him no advantage of that error if another particular ensue of as high a nature.
Página 329 - son, the use shall not be in me, but in my brother ; and yet, if I marry again and have a son, it shall divest from my brother, and be in my son ; which is the skipping they talk so much of. 1 So if I limit an use jointly to two persons, not in

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