The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon

Dutton, 1900 - 6 páginas

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Of Envy	ix

Of Love	x

Of Great Place	xi

Of Boldness	xii

Of Goodness and Goodness of Nature	xiii

Of Nobility	xiv

of Seditions and Troubles	xv

Of Atheism	xvi

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Of Custom and Education	169

Of Fortune	172

Of Usury	175

Of Youth and	181

Of Beauty	184

Of Deformity 3	186

Of Building	188

Of Superstition	xvii

Of Travel	xviii

Of Empire	xix

Of Counsel	xx

Of Delay	xxi

Of Cunning Self	xxii

Of Wisdom for a Mans Self	xxiii

Of Innovations	xxiv

Of Dispatch	xxv

Of Seeming Wise	xxvi

Of Friendship	xxvii

Of Expense	xxviii

Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates	xxix

Of Regiment of Health PAGE	xxx

Of Suspicion	xxxi

Of Discourse	xxxii

Of Plantations	xxxiii

Of Riches	xxxiv

Of Prophecies	xxxv

Of Ambition	xxxvi

Of Masques and Triumphs	xxxvii

Of Nature in	xxxviii

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Of Gardens	195

Of Negociating	205

Of Followers and Friends	208

Of Suitors	211

Of Studies	214

Of Faction	217

Of Ceremonies and Respects	220

Of Praise	223

Of VainGlory	226

Of Honour and Reputation	229

Of Judicature	232

Of Anger	239

Of Vicissitude of Things	242

Of Fame a Fragment	250

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Página 182 - Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

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Página 2 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, because it filleth the imagination, and yet it is but with the shadow of a lie. But it is not the lie that passeth through the mind, but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it, that doth the hurt such as we spake of before.

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Página 195 - GOD ALMIGHTY first planted a garden. And, indeed, it is the purest of human pleasures ; it is the greatest refreshment to the spirits of man, without which buildings and palaces are but gross handiworks.

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Página 3 - The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.

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Página 70 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :

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Página 109 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...

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Página 2 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.

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Página 16 - But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a proportion.

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Página 124 - Walled towns, stored arsenals and armories, goodly races of horse, chariots of war, elephants, ordnance, artillery, and the like, all this is but a sheep in a lion's skin, except the breed and disposition of the people be stout and warlike. Nay, number (itself) in armies importeth not much, where the people is of weak courage, for (as Virgil saith) It never troubles a wolf how many the sheep be.

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Página 41 - It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self.

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Título	The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...
Autor	Francis Bacon
Editor	Dutton, 1900
Procedencia del original	Biblioteca Pública de Nueva York
Digitalizado	4 Ene. 2007
Largo	6 páginas

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