The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And, The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1861 - 360 páginas |
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... Tiberius in dissimulation , as Tacitus saith of him , " Jam Tibe- rium vires et corpus , non dissimulatio , deserebant : " Vespasian in a jest , sitting upon the stool ,. 1 He probably alludes to the custom of hanging the room in black ...
... Tiberius in dissimulation , as Tacitus saith of him , " Jam Tibe- rium vires et corpus , non dissimulatio , deserebant : " Vespasian in a jest , sitting upon the stool ,. 1 He probably alludes to the custom of hanging the room in black ...
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... Tiberius : " and again , when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian to take arms against Vitel- lius , he saith , " We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus , nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius . " 2 These properties ...
... Tiberius : " and again , when Mucianus encourageth Vespasian to take arms against Vitel- lius , he saith , " We rise not against the piercing judgment of Augustus , nor the extreme caution or closeness of Tiberius . " 2 These properties ...
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... Tiberius to the throne . 8 Solyman the Magnificent was one of the most celebrated of the Ottoman monarchs . He took the Isle of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John . He also subdued Moldavia , Wallachia , and the greatest part of ...
... Tiberius to the throne . 8 Solyman the Magnificent was one of the most celebrated of the Ottoman monarchs . He took the Isle of Rhodes from the Knights of St. John . He also subdued Moldavia , Wallachia , and the greatest part of ...
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... Tiberius Cæsar , Sejanus had ascended to that height , as they two were termed and reckoned as a pair of friends . Tiberius , in a letter to him , saith , " Hæc pro amicitia nostra non occultavi ; " 1 and the whole senate dedicated an ...
... Tiberius Cæsar , Sejanus had ascended to that height , as they two were termed and reckoned as a pair of friends . Tiberius , in a letter to him , saith , " Hæc pro amicitia nostra non occultavi ; " 1 and the whole senate dedicated an ...
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... Tiberius said to Galba ,. 1 " But the house of Eneas shall reign over every shore , both his children's children , and those who shall spring from them . Æn . iii . 97 . 2 " After the lapse of years , ages will come in which Ocean shall ...
... Tiberius said to Galba ,. 1 " But the house of Eneas shall reign over every shore , both his children's children , and those who shall spring from them . Æn . iii . 97 . 2 " After the lapse of years , ages will come in which Ocean shall ...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral, and Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon Vista completa - 1852 |
The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral: And Wisdom of the Ancients Francis Bacon Vista completa - 1840 |
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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.