Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
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... lights of the mind behold everything in the right proportion . All the deformities and misde- meanors of the world are the children of affection , which binds up our sight in darkness and leads us blindfolded . From hence opinion ...
... lights of the mind behold everything in the right proportion . All the deformities and misde- meanors of the world are the children of affection , which binds up our sight in darkness and leads us blindfolded . From hence opinion ...
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... light when unmasked light might discover their deformities . How profoundly should we be able to censure things , how would we scorn laws and compulsion , when the most ragged understanding should fly far above them . Lastly , all the ...
... light when unmasked light might discover their deformities . How profoundly should we be able to censure things , how would we scorn laws and compulsion , when the most ragged understanding should fly far above them . Lastly , all the ...
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... light an impression , good inclinations naturally are given none but such as are of a dull , heavy disposition . But when experience hath made us feel how subject our courses are to errors , the best means is unpartially to make our ...
... light an impression , good inclinations naturally are given none but such as are of a dull , heavy disposition . But when experience hath made us feel how subject our courses are to errors , the best means is unpartially to make our ...
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... light , inconstant , insolent in prosperity , destined rather to conquer than keep ; as contrarily the Venetians have recovered by the arts of peace and composition that which they have foregone by war . The Spaniards are subtle ...
... light , inconstant , insolent in prosperity , destined rather to conquer than keep ; as contrarily the Venetians have recovered by the arts of peace and composition that which they have foregone by war . The Spaniards are subtle ...
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... light nor base ; his learning again doth arm that policy that it should not only trust to experience and knowledge of his own times , but make use of the skill and labors of antiquity . But if any man , as sometimes it happens , fit for ...
... light nor base ; his learning again doth arm that policy that it should not only trust to experience and knowledge of his own times , but make use of the skill and labors of antiquity . But if any man , as sometimes it happens , fit for ...
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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.