Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة v
... meaning so elastic that it can be affixed to a volume of lyric poetry and to a metaphysical treatise with equal pro- priety . It is a tempting label for any piece of writing which does not easily come within any of the better defined ...
... meaning so elastic that it can be affixed to a volume of lyric poetry and to a metaphysical treatise with equal pro- priety . It is a tempting label for any piece of writing which does not easily come within any of the better defined ...
الصفحة xi
... to penetrate further into the essence of this originality than to see in it a challeng- ing assertion of the writer's egotism . Montaigne's significance is best appreciated through a perception of the meaning INTRODUCTION xi.
... to penetrate further into the essence of this originality than to see in it a challeng- ing assertion of the writer's egotism . Montaigne's significance is best appreciated through a perception of the meaning INTRODUCTION xi.
الصفحة xii
... meaning which he attached to the word essai , a meaning completely lost from sight by later writers . His imitators universally took the title of his book as applying to the form of his composition , as a term of modesty to describe the ...
... meaning which he attached to the word essai , a meaning completely lost from sight by later writers . His imitators universally took the title of his book as applying to the form of his composition , as a term of modesty to describe the ...
الصفحة xv
... meaning more commonly attached to it , to signify " dispersed meditations " or , as he puts it in the edition of 1612 , " brief notes set down rather significantly than curiously . " The similarity between their essays is what might be ...
... meaning more commonly attached to it , to signify " dispersed meditations " or , as he puts it in the edition of 1612 , " brief notes set down rather significantly than curiously . " The similarity between their essays is what might be ...
الصفحة xxiii
... feels forced to make allowance for all these qualities as means whereby 1 In all the editions Felltham after 1628 , the second century is printed first . to foster virtue . He despises popularity as unstable , INTRODUCTION Xxiii.
... feels forced to make allowance for all these qualities as means whereby 1 In all the editions Felltham after 1628 , the second century is printed first . to foster virtue . He despises popularity as unstable , INTRODUCTION Xxiii.
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الصفحة 17 - 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 5 - 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 dolors of death. But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
الصفحة 104 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
الصفحة 104 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
الصفحة 292 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
الصفحة 2 - Deemonum,1 because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the. mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt, such as we spake of before.
الصفحة 21 - For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...
الصفحة 1 - TRUTH. 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...
الصفحة 18 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.