Works, المجلد 1Bohn, 1850 |
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الصفحة xxii
... better by my industry , than that myself should be the better by the knowledge of them ; I do not find that by mine own travel , without the help of authority , I can in any kind confer so profitable an addition unto that science , as ...
... better by my industry , than that myself should be the better by the knowledge of them ; I do not find that by mine own travel , without the help of authority , I can in any kind confer so profitable an addition unto that science , as ...
الصفحة 2
... better heard , without the interruption of tacit objections ; I think good to deliver it from the dis- credits and disgraces which it hath received , all from ignorance , but ignorance severally disguised ; appearing sometimes in the ...
... better heard , without the interruption of tacit objections ; I think good to deliver it from the dis- credits and disgraces which it hath received , all from ignorance , but ignorance severally disguised ; appearing sometimes in the ...
الصفحة 4
... better , and to suppress truth by force of eloquence and speech . And for matter of policy and government , that learning should rather hurt , than enable thereunto , is a thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to ...
... better , and to suppress truth by force of eloquence and speech . And for matter of policy and government , that learning should rather hurt , than enable thereunto , is a thing very improbable : we see it is accounted an error to ...
الصفحة 5
... better with ancient examples , than with those of the later cr immediate times : and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse . men to leisure and privateness ...
... better with ancient examples , than with those of the later cr immediate times : and lastly , the wit of one man can no more countervail learning , than one man's means can hold way with a common purse . men to leisure and privateness ...
الصفحة 9
... better understanding of those authors , and the better advantage of pressing nd applying their words . And thereof grew again delight in their manner of style and phrase , and en admiration of that kind of writing ; which was much ...
... better understanding of those authors , and the better advantage of pressing nd applying their words . And thereof grew again delight in their manner of style and phrase , and en admiration of that kind of writing ; which was much ...
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amongst ancient aphorisms appeareth Aristotle Augustus Cæsar Bacon better birds body Cæsar cause chiefly Cicero cold colour cometh conceive consort touching counsel divers divine doth drams earth effect excellent Experiment solitary touching Experiments in consort farther flame flowers Francis Bacon fruit give giveth glass goeth gold greater ground hath heat herbs honour humours imagination inquiry invention judgment kind king knowledge labour learning less light likewise liquor living creatures lord lord chancellor lordship Majesty maketh man's matter means men's metals mind moisture motion natural philosophy nature never nourishment observed opinion persons philosophy plants Plato princes putrefaction quicksilver reason roots saith sciences seed seemeth sense sort sound speak speech spirit of wine spirits string sweet Tacitus things tion trees true unto usury Vespasian virtue whereby wherein whereof wind wine wise wood
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الصفحة 261 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
الصفحة 273 - I had rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
الصفحة xxii - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
الصفحة 4 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
الصفحة liii - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
الصفحة 274 - Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which may be guides to an outward moral virtue, though religion were not; but superstition dismounts all these, and erecteth an absolute monarchy in the minds of men...
الصفحة viii - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
الصفحة 301 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring ; for ornament, is in discourse ; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one ; but the general counsels, and the plots, and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
الصفحة 301 - Crafty men contemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them ; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them and above them, won by observation.
الصفحة 266 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.