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... prince ; since whose time none of his successors , until this present honorable lord , did ever bear the title of Lord Chancellor . His dignities were first Knight ; then Baron of Verulam ; lastly , Viscount Saint Alban ; besides other ...
... prince ; since whose time none of his successors , until this present honorable lord , did ever bear the title of Lord Chancellor . His dignities were first Knight ; then Baron of Verulam ; lastly , Viscount Saint Alban ; besides other ...
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... prince . One day , when a great statesman was newly dead that had not been his friend , the King asked him , What he thought of that lord which was gone ? he answered , That he would never have made His Majesty's estate better , but he ...
... prince . One day , when a great statesman was newly dead that had not been his friend , the King asked him , What he thought of that lord which was gone ? he answered , That he would never have made His Majesty's estate better , but he ...
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... prince of observers , without a telescope , and with a globe no bigger than his fist , detected the errors of existing astronomical tables , and by his mechanical skill in the construction of instruments discovered the means of ...
... prince of observers , without a telescope , and with a globe no bigger than his fist , detected the errors of existing astronomical tables , and by his mechanical skill in the construction of instruments discovered the means of ...
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... prince - like . For , if we note it 25 well , speech that is uttered with labor and difficulty , or speech that savoreth of the affectation of art and pre- cepts , or speech that is framed after the imitation of some pattern of ...
... prince - like . For , if we note it 25 well , speech that is uttered with labor and difficulty , or speech that savoreth of the affectation of art and pre- cepts , or speech that is framed after the imitation of some pattern of ...
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... princes thereunto ; so likewise in these intellectual matters , there seemeth to be no less conten- 10 tion between the excellency of Your Majesty's gifts of nature and the universality and perfection of your learn- ing . For I am well ...
... princes thereunto ; so likewise in these intellectual matters , there seemeth to be no less conten- 10 tion between the excellency of Your Majesty's gifts of nature and the universality and perfection of your learn- ing . For I am well ...
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Page 125 - If a man were called to fix the period in the history of the world, during which the condition of the human race was most happy and prosperous, he would, without hesitation, name that which elapsed from the death of Domitian to the accession of Commodus.
Page 42 - ... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
Page 41 - ... if a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Page 141 - For Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are ; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them.
Page 85 - It is true, that a little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion: for while the mind of man looketh upon second causes scattered, it may sometimes rest in them, and go no farther; but when it beholdeth the chain of them confederate and linked together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity.
Page 42 - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page 31 - 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.
Page 139 - Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity : and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin.
Page 9 - To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain that a man can search too far or be too well studied in the book of God's word or in the book of God's works ; divinity or philosophy; but rather let men endeavour an endless progress or proficience in both...
Page 72 - But the images of men's wits and knowledges remain in books, exempted from the wrong of time and capable of perpetual renovation. Neither are they fitly to be called images, because they generate still, and cast their seeds in the minds of others, provoking and causing infinite actions and opinions in succeeding ages.