The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen3W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... nevertheless , to be at liberty , would turn himself into all manner of forms and wonders of nature ; sometimes into fire , sometimes into water , sometimes into the shape of beasts , and the like , till at length he were restored to ...
... nevertheless , to be at liberty , would turn himself into all manner of forms and wonders of nature ; sometimes into fire , sometimes into water , sometimes into the shape of beasts , and the like , till at length he were restored to ...
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... Nevertheless , if any expert minister of nature shall encounter matter by main force , vex- ing and urging her with intent and purpose to re- duce her to nothing , she contrariwise , seeing anni- hilation and absolute destruction cannot ...
... Nevertheless , if any expert minister of nature shall encounter matter by main force , vex- ing and urging her with intent and purpose to re- duce her to nothing , she contrariwise , seeing anni- hilation and absolute destruction cannot ...
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... and traduced to manners : nevertheless he holds some kind of conformity with the elder ; for Venus doth generally stir up a desire of conjunc- tion and procreation , and Cupid her son doth apply THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS . 47.
... and traduced to manners : nevertheless he holds some kind of conformity with the elder ; for Venus doth generally stir up a desire of conjunc- tion and procreation , and Cupid her son doth apply THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS . 47.
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... Nevertheless they are hid and retained every where , finding lurking holes and places of receit , which was well observed by Tacitus of the mathematicians and figure - flingers of his time , in a thing not so much unlike ; " Genus ...
... Nevertheless they are hid and retained every where , finding lurking holes and places of receit , which was well observed by Tacitus of the mathematicians and figure - flingers of his time , in a thing not so much unlike ; " Genus ...
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... mother of it , which is the desire of apparent good by too much fervency , is destroyed and perisheth nevertheless , whilst yet it is an im- perfect embryo , it is nourished and preserved in the 62 THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS .
... mother of it , which is the desire of apparent good by too much fervency , is destroyed and perisheth nevertheless , whilst yet it is an im- perfect embryo , it is nourished and preserved in the 62 THE WISDOM OF THE ANCIENTS .
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Página xxiv - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Página xxv - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the...
Página xxv - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs...
Página 192 - Lambert, the king would not take his life, both out of magnanimity, taking him but as an image of wax, that others had tempered and molded ; and likewise out of wisdom, thinking that if he suffered death, he would be forgotten too soon ; but being kept alive, he would be a continual spectacle, and a kind of remedy against the like enchantments of people in time to come. For which cause he was taken into service in his court to a base office in his kitchen ; so that, in a kind of mattacina...
Página 494 - An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That pave., the brooks, the stationary rocks. The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Página 410 - Christendom, but the industry and vigilancy of his own ambassadors in foreign parts. For which purpose his instructions were ever extreme curious and articulate ; and in them more articles touching inquisition than touching negotiation: requiring likewise from his ambassadors an answer, in particular distinct articles, respectively to his questions.
Página xxi - It is true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.
Página 283 - ... in some few upon conscience and belief, but in most upon simplicity, and in divers out of dependence upon some of the better sort, who did in secret favour and nourish these bruits. And it was not long ere these rumours of novelty had begotten others of scandal and murmur against the king and his Government, taxing him for a great taxer of his people, and discountenance!, of his nobility.
Página 275 - Neither again could any man, by company or con•ersing with him, be able to say or detect well what he was, he did so flit from place to place.