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Page xvii
... question is not to be found in Machiavelli , and in point of fact had not been found anywhere . In 1619 , there appeared a French translation , made or edited by Sir Arthur Gorges . We have no proof that Bacon had anything to do with it ...
... question is not to be found in Machiavelli , and in point of fact had not been found anywhere . In 1619 , there appeared a French translation , made or edited by Sir Arthur Gorges . We have no proof that Bacon had anything to do with it ...
Page xxii
... question how far these and like faults in the Essays may have been intentional on the writer's part . He is obscure , sometimes because he endeavours to put more meaning into his words than they can bear ; sometimes from an early habit ...
... question how far these and like faults in the Essays may have been intentional on the writer's part . He is obscure , sometimes because he endeavours to put more meaning into his words than they can bear ; sometimes from an early habit ...
Page xxv
... questions of policy , he has not so much to offer . His chief Essay on public affairs is that in which he undertakes to pronounce on ' the true greatness of kingdoms and estates . ' This is a test subject ; one which calls for a display ...
... questions of policy , he has not so much to offer . His chief Essay on public affairs is that in which he undertakes to pronounce on ' the true greatness of kingdoms and estates . ' This is a test subject ; one which calls for a display ...
Page xxvi
... with this whole class of questions , he is at his worst . On his views about Usury I have commented at length in the illustrations at 1 Letters and Life , vii . 478 . the end of the Essay . In his views about xxvi INTRODUCTION .
... with this whole class of questions , he is at his worst . On his views about Usury I have commented at length in the illustrations at 1 Letters and Life , vii . 478 . the end of the Essay . In his views about xxvi INTRODUCTION .
Page xxix
... question which he was asking seriously . We read , a little further down , ' One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum daemonum . ' This passage has been searched for by generations of com- mentators , but it has never ...
... question which he was asking seriously . We read , a little further down , ' One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum daemonum . ' This passage has been searched for by generations of com- mentators , but it has never ...
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Page 184 - 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.
Page 7 - 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 38 - 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 343 - So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to » distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectorcs. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers
Page 7 - ... 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.
Page 6 - A mixture of a lie doth ^ever add pleasure. 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 111 - 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 187 - The parable of Pythagoras is dark but true : Cor ne edito, Eat not the heart. Certainly, if a man would give it a hard phrase, those that want friends to open themselves unto are cannibals of their own hearts.
Page 8 - ... 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. And therefore...
Page 305 - I think a painter may make a better face than ever was ; but he must do it by a kind of felicity (as a musician that maketh an excellent air in music) and not by rule.