Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 38
Page xxiv
... fortune belongs simply the use of virtue : in the other she must be often changed , not into vice , but to look always like virtue . " The same spirit is manifest in smaller matters . Duel- ling is forbidden alike by church , state ...
... fortune belongs simply the use of virtue : in the other she must be often changed , not into vice , but to look always like virtue . " The same spirit is manifest in smaller matters . Duel- ling is forbidden alike by church , state ...
Page xxxiii
... fortunes and adventures , and how they act their parts , " he surveys with widely - roving eye the folly and madness of man- kind - the madness of individuals and of nations , the madness of rulers , of philosophers , of lovers , and of ...
... fortunes and adventures , and how they act their parts , " he surveys with widely - roving eye the folly and madness of man- kind - the madness of individuals and of nations , the madness of rulers , of philosophers , of lovers , and of ...
Page xxxvi
... fortune in our ignorance . There is no such thing as blind fortune : " Because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects , we foolishly paint her blind , and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty . " Neither does Sir ...
... fortune in our ignorance . There is no such thing as blind fortune : " Because our eye is too dim to discover the mystery of her effects , we foolishly paint her blind , and hoodwink the providence of the Almighty . " Neither does Sir ...
Page xliii
... Fortune ] 243 [ Thoughts on the Duration of Life ] . [ The Author Discourses of his Disposition and Inclinations ] [ The Vanity of Earthly Monuments ] 250 • 257 285 [ Against Affectation in the Disdain of Worldly Goods ] . 295 [ The ...
... Fortune ] 243 [ Thoughts on the Duration of Life ] . [ The Author Discourses of his Disposition and Inclinations ] [ The Vanity of Earthly Monuments ] 250 • 257 285 [ Against Affectation in the Disdain of Worldly Goods ] . 295 [ The ...
Page 8
... fortunes are strangers to themselves , and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health , either of body or mind . Illi mors gravis incubat , qui notus nimis omnibus , ignotus moritur sibi.1 In place ...
... fortunes are strangers to themselves , and while they are in the puzzle of business they have no time to tend their health , either of body or mind . Illi mors gravis incubat , qui notus nimis omnibus , ignotus moritur sibi.1 In place ...
Other editions - View all
Seventeenth Century Essays, From Bacon to Clarendon Jacob 1883-1937 Ed Zeitlin No preview available - 2021 |
Common terms and phrases
actions affection Anatomy of Melancholy Aristotle behold better body Cæsar cause charity chimæra Christian commend common conceit condemn confess conscience corruption counsel death Democritus desire discourse diseases divinity dizzards doth dreams earth editions enemy Epistles essay eyes faith fall fancy fear folly fool fortune friends FYNES MORYSON give grave happy hath heaven honor humor judgment Julius Cæsar kind labor learning liberty live man's metempsychosis methinks mind Montaigne moral nature never Nicholas Breton noble observe opinion ourselves passion persons philosophers piece Plato Plutarch poet princes QUINTILIAN reason Religio Medici religion saith scholars Seneca SENECA THE ELDER sense Sir William Cornwallis sleep soever soul speak spirit SUETONIUS Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion true truth unto vices virtue wherein wisdom wise writing
Popular passages
Page 17 - But little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it extendeth. For a crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love.
Page 3 - Truth, (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene,) and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below; so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Certainly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 5 - It is as natural to die as to be born ; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other. He that dies in an earnest pursuit, is like one that is wounded in hot blood ; who, for the time, scarce feels the hurt ; and therefore a mind fixed and bent upon somewhat that is good, doth avert the dolors of death. But, above all, believe it, the sweetest canticle is " Nunc dimittis," when a man hath obtained worthy ends and expectations.
Page 104 - I remember the players have often mentioned it as an honour to Shakespeare, that in his writing (whatsoever he penned) he never blotted out a line. My answer hath been ' Would he had blotted a thousand ! ' ; which they thought a malevolent speech.
Page 104 - His wit was in his own power, would the rule of it had been so too. Many times he fell into those things, could not escape laughter : as when he said in the person of Caesar, one speaking to him,
Page 292 - But man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes, and pompous in the grave, solemnizing nativities and deaths with equal lustre, nor omitting ceremonies of bravery in the infamy of his nature.
Page 2 - Deemonum,1 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.
Page 21 - For friendship maketh indeed a fair day in the affections from storm and tempests, but it maketh daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts. Neither is this to be understood only of faithful counsel, which a man receiveth from his friend ; but before you come to that, certain it is that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up in the communicating and discoursing with another...
Page 1 - TRUTH. WHAT is truth ? said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Certainly there be that delight in giddiness, and count it a bondage to fix a belief...
Page 18 - ... they purchase it many times at the hazard of their own safety and greatness. For princes, in regard of the distance of their fortune from that of their subjects and servants, cannot gather this fruit, except (to make themselves capable thereof) they raise some persons to be as it were companions, and almost equals to themselves, which many times sorteth to inconvenience.