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... bodies that are visible to the naked eye , but in which you see con tinually more and more , the better the telescope you apply to them . ' The ' dark sayings , ' on the contrary , of some admired writers , may be compared to a fog ...
... bodies that are visible to the naked eye , but in which you see con tinually more and more , the better the telescope you apply to them . ' The ' dark sayings , ' on the contrary , of some admired writers , may be compared to a fog ...
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... bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword . But Bacon , though far from being without a taste for the pursuits of physical science , had an ...
... bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword . But Bacon , though far from being without a taste for the pursuits of physical science , had an ...
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... body is corrupted and dissolved ; when many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb - for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well ...
... body is corrupted and dissolved ; when many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb - for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense and by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it was well ...
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... body of the cater- pillar ; that this latter has its own organs of digestion , respira- tion , & c . , suitable to its larva - life , quite distinct from , and inde- pendent of , the future butterfly which it encloses . When the proper ...
... body of the cater- pillar ; that this latter has its own organs of digestion , respira- tion , & c . , suitable to its larva - life , quite distinct from , and inde- pendent of , the future butterfly which it encloses . When the proper ...
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... body of the caterpillar in several places , and deposits her eggs , which are there hatched , and feed , as grubs ( larvæ ) on the inward parts of their victim . A most wonderful circumstance connected with this process is , that a ...
... body of the caterpillar in several places , and deposits her eggs , which are there hatched , and feed , as grubs ( larvæ ) on the inward parts of their victim . A most wonderful circumstance connected with this process is , that a ...
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Page 15 - It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolours of death ; but, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is, '' Nunc dimittis" when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 105 - Men in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Page 156 - 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 61 - Yet even in the Old Testament, if you listen to David's harp, you shall hear as many hearse-like airs as carols; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon.
Page 13 - ... 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 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.
Page 62 - We see in needleworks and embroideries it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground. Judge, therefore, of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly, virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed. For prosperity doth best discover vice; but adversity doth best discover virtue.
Page 64 - Egypt: behold, they cover the face of the earth, and they abide over against me: come now therefore, I pray thee, curse me this people; for they are too mighty for me: peradventure I shall prevail, that we may smite them, and that I may drive them out of the land: for I wot that he whom thou blessest is blessed, and he whom thou cursest is cursed.
Page 2 - Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like ; but it would leave the minds of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves.
Page 50 - Lord must not strive; but be gentle unto all men, apt to teach, patient, in meekness instructing those that oppose themselves; if God, peradventure, will give them repentance to the acknowledging of the truth; and that they may recover themselves out of the snare of the devil who are taken captive by him at his will.