Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة xvi
... also for the first appearance of Bacon's little volume ; and Bacon's vol- ume in its turn placed the seal of literary authority on this species of writing . When , therefore , students of the essay like Mr. xvi INTRODUCTION.
... also for the first appearance of Bacon's little volume ; and Bacon's vol- ume in its turn placed the seal of literary authority on this species of writing . When , therefore , students of the essay like Mr. xvi INTRODUCTION.
الصفحة xxi
... turn out to be reminiscences from literature . And yet , for all that , the impression remains that Ben Johnson is writing out of the fullness of his own thought , permitting others to suggest the language , applying his daily reading ...
... turn out to be reminiscences from literature . And yet , for all that , the impression remains that Ben Johnson is writing out of the fullness of his own thought , permitting others to suggest the language , applying his daily reading ...
الصفحة xxvi
... current notions is generally with some foundation . Altogether he is an interesting forerunner of the English rationalists . But after reading him one should cleanse his self - respect by turning to Clarendon . In xxvi INTRODUCTION.
... current notions is generally with some foundation . Altogether he is an interesting forerunner of the English rationalists . But after reading him one should cleanse his self - respect by turning to Clarendon . In xxvi INTRODUCTION.
الصفحة xxvii
From Bacon to Clarendon Jacob Zeitlin. his self - respect by turning to Clarendon . In spite of his long experience with unsteady monarchs , corrupt courts , and faithless politicians , that austere statesman preserved his faith in moral ...
From Bacon to Clarendon Jacob Zeitlin. his self - respect by turning to Clarendon . In spite of his long experience with unsteady monarchs , corrupt courts , and faithless politicians , that austere statesman preserved his faith in moral ...
الصفحة xxxiii
... so long as they can wag their beards , they will play the knaves and fools . " However , as if to give emphasis to the good - nature of his censure , he turns upon his thought and projects a Utopia of his own , in INTRODUCTION xxxiii.
... so long as they can wag their beards , they will play the knaves and fools . " However , as if to give emphasis to the good - nature of his censure , he turns upon his thought and projects a Utopia of his own , in INTRODUCTION xxxiii.
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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.