Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Том 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... Italian translations ; * " Verum illi libro nomen gravius impono . " It is a curious fact that at one time Bacon's Essays appear to have been generally known and read only in an English translation from the Latin . Thus , the writer of ...
... Italian translations ; * " Verum illi libro nomen gravius impono . " It is a curious fact that at one time Bacon's Essays appear to have been generally known and read only in an English translation from the Latin . Thus , the writer of ...
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... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente ' - So good that he is good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Macchiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , That the ...
... Italians have an ungracious proverb , Tanto buon che val niente ' - So good that he is good for nothing . And one of the doctors of Italy , Nicholas Macchiavel , had the confidence to put in writing , almost in plain terms , That the ...
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... Italians note some of them , such as a man would little think : when they speak of one that cannot do amiss , they will throw in into his other conditions that he hath poco di matto . And certainly there be not two more fortunate ...
... Italians note some of them , such as a man would little think : when they speak of one that cannot do amiss , they will throw in into his other conditions that he hath poco di matto . And certainly there be not two more fortunate ...
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... Italy . Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius , by continual giving out that her husband Au- gustus was upon recovery and amendment . And it is a usual thing with the bashaws , to conceal the death of the Great ...
... Italy . Livia settled all things for the succession of her son Tiberius , by continual giving out that her husband Au- gustus was upon recovery and amendment . And it is a usual thing with the bashaws , to conceal the death of the Great ...
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... Italian translation was also published in 1618 , and a French translation in 1619 . An Gorges , however , has omitted two short Dedications prefixed to the Latin work ; the one ( which is placed second ) to the author's Alma Mater , the ...
... Italian translation was also published in 1618 , and a French translation in 1619 . An Gorges , however , has omitted two short Dedications prefixed to the Latin work ; the one ( which is placed second ) to the author's Alma Mater , the ...
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Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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?
Сторінка 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...
Сторінка 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.
Сторінка 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...