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... that the possessor of this extraordinary intellect ! should have been exposed to
the dangers of a situation to which his firmness was unequal ; and , withdrawn
from the retirement of his study , where he was the fisrt of men , should have been
...
... that the possessor of this extraordinary intellect ! should have been exposed to
the dangers of a situation to which his firmness was unequal ; and , withdrawn
from the retirement of his study , where he was the fisrt of men , should have been
...
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But these Eesavs , written at a period of better taste , and on subjects of
immediate importance to the conduct of common life , 5 such as come home to
men's business and bosoms , ” are still read with pleasure , and continue to
possess , in the ...
But these Eesavs , written at a period of better taste , and on subjects of
immediate importance to the conduct of common life , 5 such as come home to
men's business and bosoms , ” are still read with pleasure , and continue to
possess , in the ...
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A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ; for to know much of
other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado may concern his own estate
; therefore it must needs be , that he taketh a kind of play - pleasure in looking
upon ...
A man that is busy and inquisitive is commonly envious ; for to know much of
other men's matters cannot be , because all that ado may concern his own estate
; therefore it must needs be , that he taketh a kind of play - pleasure in looking
upon ...
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good is the true and lawful end of aspir . ing ; for good thoughts ( though God
accept them ) , yet towards men are little better than good dreams , except they
be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place , as the vantage and ...
good is the true and lawful end of aspir . ing ; for good thoughts ( though God
accept them ) , yet towards men are little better than good dreams , except they
be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place , as the vantage and ...
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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
looketb upon second causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go
no ...
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
looketb upon second causes scattered , it may sometimes rest in them , and go
no ...
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Page 125 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal where there is no love.
Page 118 - 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 18 - It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the 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 preoccupateth it...
Page 62 - But now I have' written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one no not to eat.
Page 13 - WHAT is truth ?" said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief, affecting free-will in thinking as well as in acting. And though the sects of philosophers of that kind be gone, yet there remain certain discoursing wits which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients.
Page 85 - 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 natura, 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 favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain.
Page 15 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.
Page 201 - DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature.
Page 14 - One of the later school of the Grecians examineth the matter, and is at a stand to think what should be in it that men should love lies : where neither they make for pleasure, as with poets; nor for advantage, as with the merchant; but for the lie's sake.
Page 126 - ... no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift or confession.
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| Title | Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Volumes 1-2 Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Publisher | Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, 1820 |
| Original from | the New York Public Library |
| Digitized | 4 Jan 2007 |
| Length | 539 pages |
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