Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 páginas |
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... Faction 254 Ceremonies and Respects 257 Praise 260 Vain Glory 263 Honour and Reputation 266 Judicature 270 Anger Vicissitude of Things A Fragment of an Essay on Fame 278 282 292 LIFE OF LORD BACON . 1 FRANCIS BACON , afterwards iv CONTENTS ...
... Faction 254 Ceremonies and Respects 257 Praise 260 Vain Glory 263 Honour and Reputation 266 Judicature 270 Anger Vicissitude of Things A Fragment of an Essay on Fame 278 282 292 LIFE OF LORD BACON . 1 FRANCIS BACON , afterwards iv CONTENTS ...
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... factions , it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and ten- derly ; for if thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou ...
... factions , it is good to side a man's self whilst he is in the rising , and to balance himself when he is placed . Use the memory of thy predecessor fairly and ten- derly ; for if thou dost not , it is a debt will sure be paid when thou ...
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... factions , are carried openly and audaciously , it is a sign the reverence of government is lost ; for the motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be as the motions of the planets under primum mobile , " ( according to ...
... factions , are carried openly and audaciously , it is a sign the reverence of government is lost ; for the motions of the greatest persons in a government ought to be as the motions of the planets under primum mobile , " ( according to ...
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... deaths , disbanded soldiers , factions grown desperate ; and whatsoever in offending people joineth and knitteth them in For the remedies , there may be some general preservatives. a common cause . come . 74 OF SEDITIONS.
... deaths , disbanded soldiers , factions grown desperate ; and whatsoever in offending people joineth and knitteth them in For the remedies , there may be some general preservatives. a common cause . come . 74 OF SEDITIONS.
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... factions are apt enough to flatter them- selves , or at least , to brave that which they believe not . Also the foresight and prevention , that there be no likely or fit head whereunto dis- contented persons may resort , and under whom ...
... factions are apt enough to flatter them- selves , or at least , to brave that which they believe not . Also the foresight and prevention , that there be no likely or fit head whereunto dis- contented persons may resort , and under whom ...
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affection alleys amongst ancient atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better beware body bold Cæsar cause certainly Cicero command commonly council counsel counsellors court cunning custom danger death discourse dissimulation doth England envy Epicurus especially factions fame favour favourite fear fortune Galba garden give giveth goeth grace greatest ground hand hath heart honour hurt judge judgment Julius Cæsar kind king less likewise Lord Lord Bacon Lord Coke maketh man's matter means men's merchants mind motion nature ness never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure Plutarch Pompey princes profanum religion remedy reputation riches Romans saith secrecy secret seditions seemeth Sejanus Septimius Severus servants side Sir Francis Sir Nicholas Bacon sometimes sort speak speech sure Tacitus tainly things thou thought Tiberius tion tree true unto usury Vespasian virtue whereby wherein whereof wise
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Página 87 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Página 1 - WHAT is truth? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief; affecting free-will in thinking, as well as in acting: and, though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only...
Página 82 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind: and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Página 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Página 230 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Página 4 - ... 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.
Página 174 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Página 222 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison...
Página 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Página 90 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.