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... matter of taste , I can only say that since the proper object of history is to reproduce such an image of the past that the actors shall seem to live and the events to pass before our eyes , that style of historical composi- tion should ...
... matter of taste , I can only say that since the proper object of history is to reproduce such an image of the past that the actors shall seem to live and the events to pass before our eyes , that style of historical composi- tion should ...
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... matter of Brittany , Bacon represents him as outwitted by the French king : and how ? not ( as Polydore would have it ) from reposing too much trust in the promises of his confederates ; but simply because the French king understood the ...
... matter of Brittany , Bacon represents him as outwitted by the French king : and how ? not ( as Polydore would have it ) from reposing too much trust in the promises of his confederates ; but simply because the French king understood the ...
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... matter of dignity , after the imitation of that he had known abroad , than any matter of diffidence appropriate to his own case , he made it to be under- stood for an ordinance not temporary , but to hold in succession for ever after ...
... matter of dignity , after the imitation of that he had known abroad , than any matter of diffidence appropriate to his own case , he made it to be under- stood for an ordinance not temporary , but to hold in succession for ever after ...
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... matter of grace ) , to impropriate the thanks to himself : using only the opportunity of a Parliament time , the ... matters of so great importance , and because he could not remunerate them with any general pardon ( being prevented ...
... matter of grace ) , to impropriate the thanks to himself : using only the opportunity of a Parliament time , the ... matters of so great importance , and because he could not remunerate them with any general pardon ( being prevented ...
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... matter ; for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons ; especially when they ... matters of his life and education , or in fit answers to questions , or the like , any ways to come near the ...
... matter ; for high conceits do sometimes come streaming into the imaginations of base persons ; especially when they ... matters of his life and education , or in fit answers to questions , or the like , any ways to come near the ...
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Page 498 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 486 - I daffodils, That come before the swallow dares, and take The winds of March with beauty; violets dim, But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes Or Cytherea's breath...
Page 498 - ... wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again : if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores : if he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
Page 498 - 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.
Page 377 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that sheweth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure.
Page 478 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
Page 379 - weighed, to say that a man lieth, is as much as to " say, that he is brave towards God, and a coward ".towards men. For a lie faces God, and shrinks " from man." Surely the wickedness of falsehood, and breach of faith cannot possibly be so highly expressed, as in that it shall be the last peal to call the judgments of God upon the generations of men : it being foretold, that when " Christ cometh," he shall not " find
Page 413 - 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 further ; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate, and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity...
Page 455 - As for jest, there be certain things which ought to be privileged from it; namely, religion, matters of state, great persons, any man's present business of importance, and any case that deserveth pity. Yet there be some that think their wits have been asleep, except they dart o'ut somewhat that is piquant and to the quick: that is a vein which would be bridled: Parce, puer, stimulis, et fortius utere loris.