The Works of Francis Bacon: De augmentis scientiaurumM. Jones, 1815 |
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Page 183 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Page 51 - Rhetoric is subservient to the imagination, as Logic is to the understanding; and the duty and office of Rhetoric, if it be deeply looked into, is no other than to apply and recommend the dictates of reason to imagination, in order to excite the appetite and will.
Page 100 - Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude of superstition to religion makes it the more deformed...
Page 124 - But men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for God and angels to be spectators. Nor could any doubt about this matter have arisen in the Church, if a monastic life had been merely contemplative and unexercised in ecclesiastical duties — as continual prayer, the sacrifice of vows, oblations to God, and the writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine...
Page 304 - For certainly, as those wines which flow from the first treading of the grape are sweeter and better than those forced out by the press, which gives them the roughness of the husk and the stone, so are those doctrines best and sweetest which flow from a gentle crush of the Scriptures, and are not wrung into controversies and commonplaces.
Page 294 - And this holds not only in those great mysteries which concern the Deity, the Creation, and the Redemption ; but it pertains likewise to a more perfect interpretation of the moral law, " Love your enemies ; " " do good to them that hate you...
Page 12 - ... tacit agreement among mankind, with regard to the imposition of words and names, insinuate themselves into the understanding: for words are generally given according to vulgar conception, and divide things by such differences as the common people are capable of: but when a more acute understanding, or a more careful observation, would distinguish things better, words murmur against it. The remedy of this lies in definitions; but these themselves are in many respects irremediable, as consisting...
Page 32 - T V W X Y Z baaaa baaab baaba baabb babaa babab babba babbb Thus, in order to write an A, you write five a's, or aaaaa ; and to write a B, you write four a's and one b, or aaaab ; and so of the rest. And here, by the way, we gain no small advantage, as this contrivance shows a method of expressing and signifying one's mind to any distance, by objects that are either visible or audible — provided only the objects are but capable of two differences, as bells, speaking-trumpets, fireworks, cannon,...
Page 121 - All things are endued with an appetite to two kinds of good, — the one as the thing is a whole in itself, the other as it is a part of some greater whole; and this latter is more worthy and more powerful than the other, as it tends to the conservation of a more ample form.
Page 25 - ... wherein each of them excelled, and fell short : for thus languages might be enriched by mutual commerce ; and one beautiful image of speech, or one grand model of language, for justly expressing the sense of the mind, formed, like the Venus of Apelles, from the excellencies of several.