The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1861 - 360 páginas |
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... Arthur Gorges , " although the last mentioned has a claim upon regard , as having been made by a contemporary of Lord Bacon , and published in his lifetime . Its language is in the style of English current in the author's age , and for ...
... Arthur Gorges , " although the last mentioned has a claim upon regard , as having been made by a contemporary of Lord Bacon , and published in his lifetime . Its language is in the style of English current in the author's age , and for ...
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... Arthur Gorges , and printed in London . Wisdom of the Ancients . In the year 1609 , as a relaxation from abstruse specu- lations , he published in Latin his interesting little work , De Sapientia Veterum . This tract seems , in former ...
... Arthur Gorges , and printed in London . Wisdom of the Ancients . In the year 1609 , as a relaxation from abstruse specu- lations , he published in Latin his interesting little work , De Sapientia Veterum . This tract seems , in former ...
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... Arthur Gorges ; a book in which the sages of former times are rendered more wise than it may be they were , by so dextrous an interpreter of their fables . It is this book which Mr. Sandys means , in those words which he hath put before ...
... Arthur Gorges ; a book in which the sages of former times are rendered more wise than it may be they were , by so dextrous an interpreter of their fables . It is this book which Mr. Sandys means , in those words which he hath put before ...
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... Arthur Gorges . Prefixed to the work are two letters ; the one to the Earl of Salisbury , the other to the Uni- versity of Cambridge , which Gorges omits , and dedicates his translation to the high and illustrious princess the Lady ...
... Arthur Gorges . Prefixed to the work are two letters ; the one to the Earl of Salisbury , the other to the Uni- versity of Cambridge , which Gorges omits , and dedicates his translation to the high and illustrious princess the Lady ...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon Vista completa - 1852 |
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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...
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 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 107 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Página 139 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Página 145 - We know diseases of stoppings and suffocations are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much otherwise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to open the spleen, flower of sulphur for the lungs, castoreum for the brain; but 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.
Página 110 - ... creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain : therefore as atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty.