The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the AncientsLittle, Brown, 1856 - 360 pagina's |
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Pagina xiv
... appears to the greatest advantage , the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of the subject . It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth pe- rusal ...
... appears to the greatest advantage , the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of the subject . It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth pe- rusal ...
Pagina xv
... appears by the following letter : - To the Most High and Excellent Prince , Henry , Prince of Wales , Duke of Cornwall , and Earl of Chester . It may please your Highness : Having divided my life into the contemplative and active part ...
... appears by the following letter : - To the Most High and Excellent Prince , Henry , Prince of Wales , Duke of Cornwall , and Earl of Chester . It may please your Highness : Having divided my life into the contemplative and active part ...
Pagina xxv
... appear new on a known and beaten subject . Upon the whole , if we cannot bring ourselves readily to believe that there is all the physical , moral , and political meaning veiled under those fables of antiquity , which he has discovered ...
... appear new on a known and beaten subject . Upon the whole , if we cannot bring ourselves readily to believe that there is all the physical , moral , and political meaning veiled under those fables of antiquity , which he has discovered ...
Pagina 5
... appear to imagine . In all ages , it is to be feared , many and great , as in Shakspeare's time , are , the spurns That patient merit of th ' unworthy takes . It is , however , but justice to the morals of Lord Burleigh , to add that he ...
... appear to imagine . In all ages , it is to be feared , many and great , as in Shakspeare's time , are , the spurns That patient merit of th ' unworthy takes . It is , however , but justice to the morals of Lord Burleigh , to add that he ...
Pagina 6
... appears to have been limited , although not without success ; for the Queen and the Court are said to have gone to hear him when he was engaged in any celebrated cause . He was , at this period of his life , frequently admitted to the ...
... appears to have been limited , although not without success ; for the Queen and the Court are said to have gone to hear him when he was engaged in any celebrated cause . He was , at this period of his life , frequently admitted to the ...
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Pagina 23 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Pagina 227 - 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.
Pagina 205 - That is the best part of beauty, which a picture cannot express; * no, nor the first sight of the life. There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
Pagina 31 - The End of our Foundation is the knowledge of Causes, and secret motions of things ' ; and the enlarging of the bounds of Human Empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Pagina 55 - 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 dolours of death. But above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is Nunc dimittis, when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Pagina 228 - 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.
Pagina 66 - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction, and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Pagina 50 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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.
Pagina 52 - 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.
Pagina 138 - Surely every medicine is an innovation, and he that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator ; 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...