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... excellent speaker , but no good penman ; that the Earl of Northampton ( the Lord Henry Howard ) was an excellent penman , but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both . I have been induced to think , that if ...
... excellent speaker , but no good penman ; that the Earl of Northampton ( the Lord Henry Howard ) was an excellent penman , but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both . I have been induced to think , that if ...
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... excellent , all this has somewhat servile , and holding of the subject . But your Majesty's manner of speech is indeed prince- like , flowing as from a fountain , and yet streaming and branching itself into nature's order , full of ...
... excellent , all this has somewhat servile , and holding of the subject . But your Majesty's manner of speech is indeed prince- like , flowing as from a fountain , and yet streaming and branching itself into nature's order , full of ...
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... excellent treasure of your own mind , and thence to extract particulars for this purpose agreeable to your magnanimity and wisdom . IN the entrance to the former of these , -to clear the way , and as it were to make silence to have the ...
... excellent treasure of your own mind , and thence to extract particulars for this purpose agreeable to your magnanimity and wisdom . IN the entrance to the former of these , -to clear the way , and as it were to make silence to have the ...
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... excellent thing to speak with the tongues of men and angels , but because if it be severed from charity , and not referred to the good of men and mankind , it hath rather a sounding and unworthy glory than a meriting and substantial ...
... excellent thing to speak with the tongues of men and angels , but because if it be severed from charity , and not referred to the good of men and mankind , it hath rather a sounding and unworthy glory than a meriting and substantial ...
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... excellent light and most benign influence , hath wrought in all men of place and authority in our nation . Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth unto learning from learned men ...
... excellent light and most benign influence , hath wrought in all men of place and authority in our nation . Now therefore we come to that third sort of discredit or diminution of credit that groweth unto learning from learned men ...
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite 45 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Seite 60 - Faithful are the wounds of a friend ; but the kisses of an enemy are deceitful.
Seite 88 - The use of this FEIGNED HISTORY hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it...
Seite 288 - The men of experiment are like the ant, they only collect and use; the reasoners resemble spiders, who make cobwebs out of their own substance. But the bee takes a middle course: it gathers its material from the flowers of the garden and of the field, but transforms and digests it by a power of its own.
Seite 74 - ... 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?
Seite 54 - Then grew the flowing and watery vein of Osorius, the Portugal bishop, to be in price. Then did Sturmius spend such infinite and curious pains upon Cicero the orator and Hermogenes the rhetorician, besides his own books of periods and imitation and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge, and Ascham, with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were studious unto that delicate and polished kind of learning. Then did Erasmus take occasion to make...
Seite 135 - But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on...
Seite 79 - The parts of human learning have reference to the three parts of Man's Understanding, which is the seat of learning : History to his Memory, Poesy to his Imagination/ and Philosophy to his Reason.
Seite 554 - All this is true, See. if time stood still ; which contrariwise moveth so round, that a froward retention of custom is as turbulent a thing as an innovation -, and they that reverence too much old times, are but a scorn to the new.
Seite 72 - It were too long to go over the particular remedies which learning doth minister to all the diseases of the mind: sometimes purging the ill humours, sometimes opening the obstructions, sometimes helping digestion, sometimes increasing appetite, sometimes healing the wounds and exulcerations thereof, and the like; and, therefore, I will conclude with that which hath...