The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning, Divine and Human ...W. Pickering, 1825 - 402 Seiten |
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... Cæsar ; " Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit . " ( His eloquence was fluent , and worthy of a prince . ) For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that savoureth ...
... Cæsar ; " Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit . " ( His eloquence was fluent , and worthy of a prince . ) For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that savoureth ...
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... Cæsar the dictator , who lived some years before Christ , and Marcus Antoninus , were the best learned ; and so descend to the emperors of Græcia , or of the West ; and then to the lines of France , Spain , England , Scotland , and the ...
... Cæsar the dictator , who lived some years before Christ , and Marcus Antoninus , were the best learned ; and so descend to the emperors of Græcia , or of the West ; and then to the lines of France , Spain , England , Scotland , and the ...
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... same men and the same ages . For , as for men , there cannot be a better , nor the like instance , as of that pair , Alexander the Great and Julius Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was Aristotle's ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . 15.
... same men and the same ages . For , as for men , there cannot be a better , nor the like instance , as of that pair , Alexander the Great and Julius Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was Aristotle's ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . 15.
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... Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy , and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence : or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals , than generals that were great scholars ...
... Cæsar the dictator ; whereof the one was Aristotle's scholar in philosophy , and the other was Cicero's rival in eloquence : or if any man had rather call for scholars that were great generals , than generals that were great scholars ...
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... after that the state of Rome was not itself , but did degenerate , how that person , that took upon him to be counsellor to Julius Cæsar after his victory , where to begin his restoration of the state 26 OF THE PROFICIENCE AND.
... after that the state of Rome was not itself , but did degenerate , how that person , that took upon him to be counsellor to Julius Cæsar after his victory , where to begin his restoration of the state 26 OF THE PROFICIENCE AND.
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Seite 313 - I seen also under the sun, and it seemed great unto me: there was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it: now there was found in it a poor wise man, and he by his wisdom delivered the city; yet no man remembered that same poor man.
Seite 158 - I am come in my Father's name, and ye receive me not: if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.
Seite 13 - Jupiter's chair. ^<fo conclude therefore : let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, that a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy ; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress, or proficience in both...
Seite 57 - So it is in contemplation; if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Seite 309 - He that observeth the wind shall not sow; and he that regardeth the clouds shall not reap.
Seite 364 - Then said some of his disciples among themselves, What is this that he saith unto us, A little while, and ye shall not see me : and again a little while and ye shall see me ; and, Because I go to the Father ? They said therefore, What is this that he saith, A little while ? we cannot tell what he saith.
Seite 267 - 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 226 - For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced.
Seite 52 - ... for, as water will not ascend higher than the level of the first spring-head from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from Aristotle, and exempted from liberty of examination, will not rise again higher than the knowledge of Aristotle.
Seite 142 - Because true history propoundeth the successes and issues of actions not so agreeable to the merits of virtue and vice. therefore poesy feigns them more just in retribution, and more according to revealed providence.