Essays, Moral, Economical, and PoliticalJ. Carpenter, 1812 - 295 pagina's |
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Pagina vii
... secret mission to Eliza- beth , in which he acquitted himself with uncommon reputation . This was the mode of instruction uniformly adopted towards those who were destined to occupy important situations in the commonwealth , and when a ...
... secret mission to Eliza- beth , in which he acquitted himself with uncommon reputation . This was the mode of instruction uniformly adopted towards those who were destined to occupy important situations in the commonwealth , and when a ...
Pagina ix
... acquirements , secretly laboured to retard his progress ; while his senatorial opposition to the court strength- ened the prejudices concerning him , which were constantly infused into the mind of the queen . LORD BACON . ix.
... acquirements , secretly laboured to retard his progress ; while his senatorial opposition to the court strength- ened the prejudices concerning him , which were constantly infused into the mind of the queen . LORD BACON . ix.
Pagina xxix
... secretly impaired his mind ; nor had he been altogether unaffected by the severe winter that succeeded the infectious summer of 1625. He , however , appeared to revive with the spring of the ensuing year , till , while trying some ...
... secretly impaired his mind ; nor had he been altogether unaffected by the severe winter that succeeded the infectious summer of 1625. He , however , appeared to revive with the spring of the ensuing year , till , while trying some ...
Pagina xxxi
... Secrets of Civil Life he had unfolded , Nature's Law fulfilled , Let compounds be dissolved ; In the Year of our Lord , M.DC.XXVI . Of his Age LXVI . Of such a Man , That the Memory might remain , Thomas Meautys , Living his Attendant ...
... Secrets of Civil Life he had unfolded , Nature's Law fulfilled , Let compounds be dissolved ; In the Year of our Lord , M.DC.XXVI . Of his Age LXVI . Of such a Man , That the Memory might remain , Thomas Meautys , Living his Attendant ...
Pagina xxxiii
... secretly he aspired . His philosophical reputation has never been questioned , as having first emancipated truth from the shackles which antiquity and error had imposed . As a lawyer , he disputes with Lord Coke the palm assigned to ...
... secretly he aspired . His philosophical reputation has never been questioned , as having first emancipated truth from the shackles which antiquity and error had imposed . As a lawyer , he disputes with Lord Coke the palm assigned to ...
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Populaire passages
Pagina 87 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Pagina 1 - 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. But it is not only...
Pagina 82 - HAD rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind: and, therefore, God never wrought miracles to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Pagina 89 - There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received...
Pagina 230 - God Almighty first planted a garden; and, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man; without which buildings and palaces are but gross handyworks...
Pagina 4 - ... it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely 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.
Pagina 174 - It is a shameful and unblessed thing to take the scum of people and wicked condemned men, to be the people with whom you plant; and not only so, but it spoileth the plantation; for they will ever live like rogues, and not fall to work, but be lazy, and do mischief, and spend victuals, and be quickly weary, and then certify over to their country to the discredit of the plantation.
Pagina 222 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, committeth himself to prison...
Pagina 3 - 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. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen.
Pagina 90 - Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education ; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country, before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel.