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Page xvi
... speak during his active life , as if he affected to die in the shadow and not in the light ; which also may be found in several passages of his works . In which time he composed the greatest part of his books and writings , both in ...
... speak during his active life , as if he affected to die in the shadow and not in the light ; which also may be found in several passages of his works . In which time he composed the greatest part of his books and writings , both in ...
Page xvii
... speak them , which with what sufficiency he wrote , let the world judge ; but with what celerity he wrote them , I can best testify . But for the fourth , his elocution , I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Raleigh once speak ...
... speak them , which with what sufficiency he wrote , let the world judge ; but with what celerity he wrote them , I can best testify . But for the fourth , his elocution , I will only set down what I heard Sir Walter Raleigh once speak ...
Page xix
... speak upon such a subject as wherein he was peculiarly skilful and would delight to speak . And for himself , he contemned no man's observations , but would light his torch at every man's candle . His opinions and assertions were for ...
... speak upon such a subject as wherein he was peculiarly skilful and would delight to speak . And for himself , he contemned no man's observations , but would light his torch at every man's candle . His opinions and assertions were for ...
Page xxiii
... speak in the com- parative only , and not in the exclusive . For his reputa- tion is great in his own nation also , especially amongst those that are of a more acute and sharper judgment ; which I will exemplify but with two testimonies ...
... speak in the com- parative only , and not in the exclusive . For his reputa- tion is great in his own nation also , especially amongst those that are of a more acute and sharper judgment ; which I will exemplify but with two testimonies ...
Page xxix
... speak with almost as much respect as they do of Church and State ; and that , if it had not been for this ' Baconian induction , ' science would never have extricated itself from the miserable condition in which it was left by a set of ...
... speak with almost as much respect as they do of Church and State ; and that , if it had not been for this ' Baconian induction , ' science would never have extricated itself from the miserable condition in which it was left by a set of ...
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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.