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Of the Apophthegms published in 1625 the following is the preface by Lord Bacon :“ Julius Cæsar did write a collection of apophthems , as appears in an epistle of Cicero . I need say no more for the worth of a writing of that nature .
Of the Apophthegms published in 1625 the following is the preface by Lord Bacon :“ Julius Cæsar did write a collection of apophthems , as appears in an epistle of Cicero . I need say no more for the worth of a writing of that nature .
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Besides , it being my manner for dedications , to choose those that I hold most fit for the argument , I thought , that in respect of divinity and poesy met , whereof the one is the matter , the other the style of this little writing ...
Besides , it being my manner for dedications , to choose those that I hold most fit for the argument , I thought , that in respect of divinity and poesy met , whereof the one is the matter , the other the style of this little writing ...
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Burch , 4263 , is , I suspect , in Lord Bacon's own writing , with his signature . It is stated in one of the MSS . to have been written before or when Sir Francis Bacon was Solicitor General , and in the Remains is entitled ...
Burch , 4263 , is , I suspect , in Lord Bacon's own writing , with his signature . It is stated in one of the MSS . to have been written before or when Sir Francis Bacon was Solicitor General , and in the Remains is entitled ...
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Thy creatures have been lor's 6 The the second prayer , entitled , “ A Prayer made and used by the Lord Chancellor Bacon , ” is in the Remains ; and the two remaining prayers , Student's Prayer , ” and “ The Writer's Prayer , ” are in ...
Thy creatures have been lor's 6 The the second prayer , entitled , “ A Prayer made and used by the Lord Chancellor Bacon , ” is in the Remains ; and the two remaining prayers , Student's Prayer , ” and “ The Writer's Prayer , ” are in ...
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“ May God never permit us to give out the dream of our fancy as a model of the world , but rather in his kindness vouchsafe to us the means of writing a revelation and true vision of the traces and stamps of the Creator on his creatures ...
“ May God never permit us to give out the dream of our fancy as a model of the world , but rather in his kindness vouchsafe to us the means of writing a revelation and true vision of the traces and stamps of the Creator on his creatures ...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16,Nummer 2 Francis Bacon,Basil Montagu Volledige weergave - 1834 |
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Pagina 7 - 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.
Pagina cdlii - 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.
Pagina 3 - There happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking : his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly , more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion.
Pagina 7 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Pagina 2 - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
Pagina cdxli - Lord ! how Thy servant hath walked before Thee; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved Thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of Thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of Thy sanctuary. This vine which Thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto Thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Pagina cdxxxiii - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...