The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England..: Essays. Meditationes sacrae [English]. Of the colours of good and evil. Miscellaneous tracts upon human philosophy. Apophthegmes. ornamenta rationalia. Collection of sentences. Notes for conversation. Essay on deathWilliam Pickering., 1825 |
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... thou to do with peace ? turn thee be- " hind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following , and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking ...
... thou to do with peace ? turn thee be- " hind me . " Peace is not the matter , but following , and party . Contrariwise , certain Laodiceans and lukewarm persons think they may accommodate points of religion by middle ways , and taking ...
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... thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory , but to direct thyself what to avoid.- Reform , therefore ...
... thou didst not best at first . Neglect not also the examples of those that have carried themselves ill in the same place ; not to set off thyself by taxing their memory , but to direct thyself what to avoid.- Reform , therefore ...
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... thou changest thine opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , together with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A servant ́or a favourite , if he be inward , and no other apparent cause ...
... thou changest thine opinion or course , profess it plainly , and declare it , together with the reasons that move thee to change , and do not think to steal it . A servant ́or a favourite , if he be inward , and no other apparent cause ...
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... thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , re- spect them ; and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in ...
... thou art gone . If thou have colleagues , re- spect them ; and rather call them when they look not for it , than exclude them when they have reason to look to be called . Be not too sensible or too remembering of thy place in ...
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... thou breakest the pattern : for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern ; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture : " Sell all thou hast and give it " to the poor , and follow me : " but sell not all thou hast except thou ...
... thou breakest the pattern : for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern ; the love of our neighbours but the portraiture : " Sell all thou hast and give it " to the poor , and follow me : " but sell not all thou hast except thou ...
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Términos y frases comunes
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Página 165 - 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. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs, come best from those that are learned.
Página 3 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. 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 443 - 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.
Página 13 - Stoics), that the good things which belong to prosperity are to be wished; but the good things that belong to adversity are to be admired. Bona rerum secundarum optabilia; adversarum mirabilia. Certainly if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other (much too high for a heathen), It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God.
Página 5 - ... mind of man so weak, but it mates and masters the fear of death: and therefore death is no such ' terrible enemy, when a man hath so many attendants about him, that can win the combat of him. Revenge triumphs over death; love slights it; honour aspireth to it; grief flieth to it; fear pre-occupateth...
Página xiv - ... is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head and the like ; .so if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit bo called away never so little, he must begin again...
Página 141 - Your young men shall see visions, and your old men shall dream dreams, inferreth that young men are admitted nearer to God than old, because vision is a clearer revelation than a dream. And certainly, the more a man drinketh of the world, the more it...
Página 54 - 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 nature; 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 in...
Página 32 - ... themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it: but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and that other men would fain be as they are, then they are happy as it were by report; when perhaps they find the contrary within. For they are the first that find their own griefs, though they be the last that find their own faults. Certainly men in great fortunes are strangers to themselves, and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no...
Página 422 - And, generally, men ought to find the difference between saltness and bitterness. Certainly he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others