Essays by Lords Bacon and Clarendon: Two Volumes in One, المجلدات 1-2Wells and Lilly, Court-Street, 1820 - 539 من الصفحات |
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الصفحة 11
... passing scene : in them we behold imagination and know- ledge equally successful in their exertions ; this as the contributor of truths and that as opening her affluent wardrobe for their dress ; one like the earth throwing out of her ...
... passing scene : in them we behold imagination and know- ledge equally successful in their exertions ; this as the contributor of truths and that as opening her affluent wardrobe for their dress ; one like the earth throwing out of her ...
الصفحة 16
... pass from theological and philoso- phical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood ...
... pass from theological and philoso- phical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood ...
الصفحة 21
... pass that one saith , ecce in deserto , " another saith , ecce in penetralibus ; " that is , when some men seek Christ in the conventicles of here- tics , and others in an outward face of a church , that voice had need continually to ...
... pass that one saith , ecce in deserto , " another saith , ecce in penetralibus ; " that is , when some men seek Christ in the conventicles of here- tics , and others in an outward face of a church , that voice had need continually to ...
الصفحة 24
... pass in that dis- tance of judgment , which is between man and man , shall we not think that God above , that knows the heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their contradictions , intend the same thing , and accepteth of ...
... pass in that dis- tance of judgment , which is between man and man , shall we not think that God above , that knows the heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their contradictions , intend the same thing , and accepteth of ...
الصفحة 27
... passing it over he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon , I am sure , saith , " It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . " That which is past is gone and irrecoverable , and wise men have enough to do ...
... passing it over he is superior ; for it is a prince's part to pardon : and Solomon , I am sure , saith , " It is the glory of a man to pass by an offence . " That which is past is gone and irrecoverable , and wise men have enough to do ...
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actions affections amongst anger ARMANDE DE Bourbon atheism Augustus Cæsar believe better blessing body Cæsar cause cern Christian church command commit commonly conscience contempt conversation corrupt counsel Damvilliers death delight desire discern discourse doth envy Epicurus fame favour fear fortune friendship Galba give God's goeth greatest hath heart honour innocent judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice kind king labour learned least less liberty likewise live maketh man's matter men's ment mind mischief Montpellier nature ness never obligation observation ourselves pains passion patience peace persons pleasure Pompey pride prince of Conti princes reason religion rence repentance riches sacrilege saith seditions shew soever speak speech suffer sure Tacitus temper Themistocles things thou thought Tiberius tion true truth ture unto usury Vespasian vice virtue weak whereas whereof wickedness wise word
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الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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...
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.
الصفحة 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.