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... leaving no children . Bacon's most important writings in science and philosophy are parts of a vast work which he left unfinished , his " Magna Instauratio . " The first part of this , the " De Augmentis , " is an enlargement in Latin ...
... leaving no children . Bacon's most important writings in science and philosophy are parts of a vast work which he left unfinished , his " Magna Instauratio . " The first part of this , the " De Augmentis , " is an enlargement in Latin ...
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... , flattering hopes , false valu- ations , imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would Latin , windy and rambling . Lucian . 1 Loving . The Skeptics . • Restricts . 7 leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken I II.
... , flattering hopes , false valu- ations , imaginations as one would , and the like , but it would Latin , windy and rambling . Lucian . 1 Loving . The Skeptics . • Restricts . 7 leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken I II.
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leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to them- selves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum [ devils ' - wine ] , because it ...
leave the minds of a number of men poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing to them- selves ? One of the fathers , in great severity , called poesy vinum dæmonum [ devils ' - wine ] , because it ...
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... leave to speak . For the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness and betraying ; by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words . For the second , which is dissimulation ...
... leave to speak . For the discovery of a man's self by the tracts of his countenance is a great weakness and betraying ; by how much it is many times more marked and believed than a man's words . For the second , which is dissimulation ...
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... leaving these curiosities ( though not unworthy to be thought on in fit place ) , we will handle , what persons are apt to envy others ; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves ; and what is the difference between public ...
... leaving these curiosities ( though not unworthy to be thought on in fit place ) , we will handle , what persons are apt to envy others ; what persons are most subject to be envied themselves ; and what is the difference between public ...
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Page 125 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Page 208 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Page 199 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Page 20 - The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Page 65 - And if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Page 229 - The light which we have gained, was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Page 199 - It is true, no age can restore a life whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Page 22 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Page 233 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Page 231 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.