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Pagina 5
... book , or books , the more is such a compen- Dus analysis wanted , not to supersede or be a substi- te for the original , but to accompany it as an introduc- on and instrument of ready reference . It is like a ap of a country through ...
... book , or books , the more is such a compen- Dus analysis wanted , not to supersede or be a substi- te for the original , but to accompany it as an introduc- on and instrument of ready reference . It is like a ap of a country through ...
Pagina 6
... books are to be read only parts ; others to be read , but not curiously ; and so few to be read wholly , and with ... book is often to be read in one way by one man and i another way by another . We cannot have a better ample than his ...
... books are to be read only parts ; others to be read , but not curiously ; and so few to be read wholly , and with ... book is often to be read in one way by one man and i another way by another . We cannot have a better ample than his ...
Pagina 12
... Book of the De Augmentis Scientiarum , he gives an account of a method of cyphers which he says he invented when he was a young man at Paris . It was in that capital , no doubt , that he spent by far the greater part , if not the whole ...
... Book of the De Augmentis Scientiarum , he gives an account of a method of cyphers which he says he invented when he was a young man at Paris . It was in that capital , no doubt , that he spent by far the greater part , if not the whole ...
Pagina 21
... book , there- fore , we may infer did not come out till towards the end of the year , or perhaps not till after the beginning of 1613. The letter is in fact the intended Dedication to the Prince . " Having , " Bacon begins , " divided ...
... book , there- fore , we may infer did not come out till towards the end of the year , or perhaps not till after the beginning of 1613. The letter is in fact the intended Dedication to the Prince . " Having , " Bacon begins , " divided ...
Pagina 22
... books ; so as they are neither repetitions nor fancies . " It was Bacon's practice to improve and make additions to the Essays throughout his life . In the letter to Bi- shop Andrews prefixed to his tract entitled " An Ad- vertisement ...
... books ; so as they are neither repetitions nor fancies . " It was Bacon's practice to improve and make additions to the Essays throughout his life . In the letter to Bi- shop Andrews prefixed to his tract entitled " An Ad- vertisement ...
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amongst ancient aphorisms Apophthegms appear Aristotle atheism Augmentis Augustus Cæsar axioms Bacon better body Book called cause Church Cicero colour conceive discourse diurnal motion divers divine doctrine doth earth edition effect English entitled Essays excellent experience fortune give Glassford hand hath heat History honour House of York human imagination instances Instauratio Instauratio Magna Instauration invention judgment Julius Cæsar kind king king's knowledge labour Lambert Simnell Latin learning light likewise Lord lordship Majesty maketh man's manner matter means men's ment mind motion natural philosophy nature never Novum Organum observed opinion persons philosophy princes principal published queen Rawley reason Resuscitatio saith sciences seemeth sense Sir Francis Bacon Spain speak speech spirit syllogism things thought tion touching translation true truth unto virtue wherein whereof wind wisdom wise words writings
Populaire passages
Pagina 78 - 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 need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not.
Pagina 49 - For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of God, worketh according to the stuff, and is limited thereby ; but if it work upon itself, as the spider worketh his web, then it is endless, and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for the fineness of thread and work, but of no substance or profit.
Pagina 81 - Judges ought to be more learned than witty ; more reverend than plausible ; and more advised ' than confident. Above all things, integrity is their portion and proper virtue.
Pagina 36 - He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief. Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried or childless men, which both in affection and means have married and endowed the public.
Pagina 37 - Unmarried men are best friends, best masters, best servants; but not always best subjects; for they are light to run away; and almost all fugitives are of that condition. A single life doth well with churchmen; for charity will hardly water the ground where it must first fill a pool.
Pagina 37 - Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel 7 to marry when he will: but yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer to the question when a man should marry, "A young man not yet, an elder man not at all.
Pagina 60 - So that if the invention of the ship was thought so noble, which carrieth riches and commodities from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions in participation of their fruits, how much more are letters to be magnified, which as ships pass through the vast seas of time, and make ages so distant to participate of the wisdom, illuminations, and inventions, the one of the other?
Pagina 47 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ; for, take an example of a dog and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God or melior natura...
Pagina 34 - Certainly, if miracles be the command over nature, they appear most in adversity. It is yet a higher speech of his than the other, (much too high for a heathen,) " It is true greatness to have in one the frailty of a man, and the security of a God :" — " Vere magnum habere fragilitatem hominis, securitatem Dei.
Pagina 46 - But farther, it is an assured truth and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion...