The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6Longmans, Green, Reader, and Dyer, 1858 |
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... virtues and reigning in a continued succession of victorious achievements in peace and war ( so history reported him ) might easily - See his " Letter to the Lord Chancellor touching a History of Britain ; " the original of which ...
... virtues and reigning in a continued succession of victorious achievements in peace and war ( so history reported him ) might easily - See his " Letter to the Lord Chancellor touching a History of Britain ; " the original of which ...
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... virtue , but yet of rare sagacity industry and courage , who for twenty - three years really governed the country by his own wit and his own will . Bacon has accordingly treated the history of his reign as a history of the ...
... virtue , but yet of rare sagacity industry and courage , who for twenty - three years really governed the country by his own wit and his own will . Bacon has accordingly treated the history of his reign as a history of the ...
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... virtue approved , jealous of the honour of the English nation , and likewise a good law - maker for the ease and solace of the common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides in the opinion of all men weighed down his virtues and ...
... virtue approved , jealous of the honour of the English nation , and likewise a good law - maker for the ease and solace of the common people ; yet his cruelties and parricides in the opinion of all men weighed down his virtues and ...
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... virtues at that time had their turns in his nature ) restore Edward Stafford eldest son to Henry Duke of Buckingham , attainted in the time of King Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and possessions , which were ...
... virtues at that time had their turns in his nature ) restore Edward Stafford eldest son to Henry Duke of Buckingham , attainted in the time of King Richard , not only to his dignities , but to his fortunes and possessions , which were ...
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... virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh his grandfather and Lewis the Eleventh his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate1 than it had been of many years ...
... virtue and good fortune of his two immediate predecessors , Charles the Seventh his grandfather and Lewis the Eleventh his father , received the kingdom of France in more flourishing and spread estate1 than it had been of many years ...
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Page 493 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them, for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Page 382 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Page 375 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 430 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
Page 494 - 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 493 - 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.
Page 409 - 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 466 - In studies, whatsoever a man commandeth upon himself, let him set hours for it ; but whatsoever is agreeable to his nature, let him take no care for any set times ; for his thoughts will fly to it of themselves, so as the spaces of other business or studies will suffice.
Page 483 - Roses, damask and red, are fast flowers of their smells; so that you may walk by a whole row of them, and find nothing of their sweetness; yea, though it be in a morning's dew.
Page 474 - 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.