The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volumen2Baynes and son, 1824 |
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... fortune , 350 41 Of usury , 351 42 Of youth and age , 355 43 Of beauty , 357 44 Of deformity , 358 45 Of building , 359 46 Of gardens , 363 47 Of negotiating , 369 48 Of followers and friends , 370 49 Of suitors , 372 50 Of studies ...
... fortune , 350 41 Of usury , 351 42 Of youth and age , 355 43 Of beauty , 357 44 Of deformity , 358 45 Of building , 359 46 Of gardens , 363 47 Of negotiating , 369 48 Of followers and friends , 370 49 Of suitors , 372 50 Of studies ...
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... fortunes , and in the end concluded , that we might do well to think with our- selves , what time of stay we would demand of the state ; and bade us not to scant ourselves ; for he would procure such time as we desired . Whereupon we ...
... fortunes , and in the end concluded , that we might do well to think with our- selves , what time of stay we would demand of the state ; and bade us not to scant ourselves ; for he would procure such time as we desired . Whereupon we ...
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... fortune should be " such as to know these things better than I. " In taxing his ignorance in his art , he represented to him the perpetual greatness of his fortune , leaving him no vacant time for so mean a skill . Now in music it is ...
... fortune should be " such as to know these things better than I. " In taxing his ignorance in his art , he represented to him the perpetual greatness of his fortune , leaving him no vacant time for so mean a skill . Now in music it is ...
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... fortune correct itself . Now it hath fared with men in their contem- plations , as Seneca saith it fareth with them in their actions , De partibus vitæ quisque deliberat , de summa nemo . A course very ordinary with men who receive for ...
... fortune correct itself . Now it hath fared with men in their contem- plations , as Seneca saith it fareth with them in their actions , De partibus vitæ quisque deliberat , de summa nemo . A course very ordinary with men who receive for ...
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... fortune : so yet nevertheless still I say , and I speak it more largely than before , that in perusing the writings of this person so much celebrated , whe- ther it were the impediment of his wit , or that he did it upon glory and ...
... fortune : so yet nevertheless still I say , and I speak it more largely than before , that in perusing the writings of this person so much celebrated , whe- ther it were the impediment of his wit , or that he did it upon glory and ...
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Términos y frases comunes
Æsop amongst ancient answered Aristippus asked atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better bishop body brass Cæsar cause Church Cicero cold colour cometh commixed commonly conceit counsel death divers divine doth drams earth effect envy evil Experiment solitary touching father fortune friends fruit give glass goeth gold grains hath heat holy honour imagination iron judge Julius Cæsar kind king knowledge labour less light likewise lord Macedon majesty maketh man's matter means men's metals mind motion nature never observed oil of vitriol opinion ounce persons Pompey princes putrefaction queen quicksilver quod religion rest saith seemeth servants shew side silver Sir Nicholas Bacon smell sort speak speech spirits stone Tacitus thee things thou thought tion true unto usury Vespasian virtue vitrification whereby wherein whereof whereupon wine wise words
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Página 105 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página 314 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg; and a number of the like. But all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth which are blushing in a man's own.
Página 255 - REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth but offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office.
Página 261 - HE that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Página 358 - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes, like the warbling of music,) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.
Página 262 - Chaste women are often proud and froward, as presuming upon the merit of their chastity. It is one of the best bonds, both of chastity and obedience, in the wife, if she think her husband wise ; which she will never do if she find him jealous. Wives are young men's mistresses; companions for middle age; and old men's nurses.
Página 255 - ... and it is two for one. Some, when they take revenge, are desirous the party should know whence it cometh : this is the more generous. For the delight seemeth to be not so much in doing the hurt as in making the party repent : but base and crafty cowards are like the arrow that flieth in the dark. Cosmus, duke of Florence, had a desperate saying against perfidious or neglecting friends, as if those wrongs were unpardonable : You shall read (saith he) that we are commanded to forgive our enemies;...
Página 350 - Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end without consideration of the means and degrees ; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon, absurdly; care not...
Página 494 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Página 332 - It is the sinfullest thing in the world to forsake or destitute a plantation, once in forwardness : for besides the dishonour, it is the guiltiness of blood of many commiserable persons.