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... whole career : " I doubt whether there was ever any man whose evidence upon matters of fact may be more absolutely trusted " . The only ground on which that judgment is now likely to be disputed is the occasional semblance of servility ...
... whole career : " I doubt whether there was ever any man whose evidence upon matters of fact may be more absolutely trusted " . The only ground on which that judgment is now likely to be disputed is the occasional semblance of servility ...
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... whole , as he ought to have expected . Foreigners were naturally less unready than his countrymen to listen to a disgraced judge who took a high tone of censure towards the average mind ; and his compliments to the Jesuits naturally ...
... whole , as he ought to have expected . Foreigners were naturally less unready than his countrymen to listen to a disgraced judge who took a high tone of censure towards the average mind ; and his compliments to the Jesuits naturally ...
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... whole field of Nature in a life which was engrossed with work enough of other kinds to keep a strong man busy . No gift of distinguishing differences in things natural could have availed for success under such circumstances . The gift ...
... whole field of Nature in a life which was engrossed with work enough of other kinds to keep a strong man busy . No gift of distinguishing differences in things natural could have availed for success under such circumstances . The gift ...
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... whole story will necessarily come out in full detail . In the mean time I may say for myself that I have no fault to find with Bacon for any part of his conduct towards Essex , and I think many people will agree with me when they see ...
... whole story will necessarily come out in full detail . In the mean time I may say for myself that I have no fault to find with Bacon for any part of his conduct towards Essex , and I think many people will agree with me when they see ...
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... whole question , as it regards Bacon's character , must be considered in connexion with the rest of his political life , and will be fully discussed in its place in the Occasional works ; where all the evi- dence I can find shall be ...
... whole question , as it regards Bacon's character , must be considered in connexion with the rest of his political life , and will be fully discussed in its place in the Occasional works ; where all the evi- dence I can find shall be ...
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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...