The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volumen1Parry & McMillan, 1859 |
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With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. ADVERTISEMENT ОР THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS . THE publishers of this , the first complete American edition of Lord Bacon's Works , would never have entered upon so considerable an ...
With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. ADVERTISEMENT ОР THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS . THE publishers of this , the first complete American edition of Lord Bacon's Works , would never have entered upon so considerable an ...
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With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. PREFACE ABOUT thirty years ago I read in the will of Lord Bacon- " For my burial , I desire it may be in St. Michael's Church , St. Albans : there was my mother buried , and it is ...
With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. PREFACE ABOUT thirty years ago I read in the will of Lord Bacon- " For my burial , I desire it may be in St. Michael's Church , St. Albans : there was my mother buried , and it is ...
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With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS . THE publishers of this , the first complete American edition of Lord Bacon's Works , would never have entered upon so considerable an ...
With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. ADVERTISEMENT OF THE AMERICAN PUBLISHERS . THE publishers of this , the first complete American edition of Lord Bacon's Works , would never have entered upon so considerable an ...
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... Bacon bequeathed his good name , and posterity and distant ages will do him ample justice . Wisdom herself has suffered in his disgrace , but year after year brings to light proof of the arts that worked Bacon's downfall , and covered ...
... Bacon bequeathed his good name , and posterity and distant ages will do him ample justice . Wisdom herself has suffered in his disgrace , but year after year brings to light proof of the arts that worked Bacon's downfall , and covered ...
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With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. CONTENTS OF VOL . I. Page lviii 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24. LIFE OF BACON . PART L - FROM THE BIRTH OF BACON TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH . CHAPTER I. From the Birth of Bacon to the ...
With a Life of the Author Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu. CONTENTS OF VOL . I. Page lviii 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 24. LIFE OF BACON . PART L - FROM THE BIRTH OF BACON TO THE DEATH OF QUEEN ELIZABETH . CHAPTER I. From the Birth of Bacon to the ...
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Página xvii - Yet there happened, in my time, one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language, where he could spare, or pass by, a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Página 155 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts ; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Página 234 - You see, sweet maid, we marry A gentler scion to the wildest stock, And make conceive a bark of baser kind By bud of nobler race: this is an art Which does mend nature, change it rather, but The art itself is nature.
Página 47 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested : that is, some books are to be read only in parts ; others to be read, but not curiously ; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others ; but that would be only in the less important arguments, and the meaner sort of books : else distilled books are like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Página xvii - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página 3 - But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts ; that doth bring lies in favour : but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself.
Página 6 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes ; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome...
Página 26 - Neither is this second fruit of friendship, in opening the understanding, restrained only to such friends as are able to give a man counsel, (they indeed are best,) but even without that a man learneth of himself, and bringeth his own thoughts to light, and whetteth his wits as against a stone, which itself cuts not. In a word, a man were better relate himself to a statue or picture, than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.
Página 17 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura ; which courage is manifestly such as that 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...
Página 25 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.