Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
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... wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us . So that in conclusion , all is but that we all condemn , self - love . " His appreciation of friendship goes beyond what men have said most eloquently in its praise . " I never yet ...
... wherein they seem to quadrate and consent with us . So that in conclusion , all is but that we all condemn , self - love . " His appreciation of friendship goes beyond what men have said most eloquently in its praise . " I never yet ...
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... wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask counsel of both times ; of the ancient time what is best , 1 It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else , and still unknown to himself . - SENECA , Thyestes , II ...
... wherein and how they have degenerate ; but yet ask counsel of both times ; of the ancient time what is best , 1 It is a sad fate for a man to die too well known to everybody else , and still unknown to himself . - SENECA , Thyestes , II ...
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... wherein they are good , and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious , and when it is once perceived , ridiculous . The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion , and again to moderate and pass to ...
... wherein they are good , and want variety ; which kind of poverty is for the most part tedious , and when it is once perceived , ridiculous . The honorablest part of talk is to give the occasion , and again to moderate and pass to ...
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... wherein a man may commend himself with good grace , and that is in commending virtue in another ; especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth . ' Be gentle with the spurs and handle the reins more firmly.- OVID ...
... wherein a man may commend himself with good grace , and that is in commending virtue in another ; especially if it be such a virtue whereunto himself pretendeth . ' Be gentle with the spurs and handle the reins more firmly.- OVID ...
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... wherein they live , forcing them , as it were , into certain affections and rules of living . For every age of the world has a certain genius which over- ruleth the minds of men and turneth them to some de- sires . Some ages breathe ...
... wherein they live , forcing them , as it were , into certain affections and rules of living . For every age of the world has a certain genius which over- ruleth the minds of men and turneth them to some de- sires . Some ages breathe ...
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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.