The Essays Or Covnsels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo: Vervlam, Viscovnt St. Alban: First Published in 1597, Newly Written in 1625...E. P. Dutton & Company, 1900 - 290 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
Addled Parliament affection Alice Barnham alleys amongst ancient Arians Arminians atheism Augustus Cæsar Bacon better beware body Cæsar cause Certainly church common commonly counsel counsellors Court cunning custom danger death discourse doth edition England envy Essay factions fame favour fear flowers fortune Francis Bacon friendship garden give goeth Gorhambury grace Gray's Inn ground hand hath honour humour judge judgement Julius Cæsar kind King Latin less likewise Lord Lord Brackley maketh man's matter means men's merchants mind modern motion nature never nobility noble observation opinion party persons plantation pleasure politic Pompey princes religion reputation respect rest riches saith sects seditions sentence Septimius Severus shew side Sir Nicholas Bacon sort speak speech studies Suitors suits sure Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion true truth unto usury virtue Vitellius water-mints wherein wisdom wise words
Popular passages
Page 90 - It were better to have no opinion of God at all, than such an Opinion as is unworthy of him : for the one is unbelief, the other is contumely : and certainly superstition is the reproach of the Deity. Plutarch saith well to that purpose :
Page 2 - One of the fathers, in great severity, called poesy vinum daemonum, 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 221 - Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read but not curiously; and some few to be read wholly and with diligence and attention. Some books also may be read by deputy, and extracts made of them by others; but that would be only in the less important arguments and the meaner sort of books; else distilled books are, like common distilled waters, flashy things.
Page 221 - STUDIES serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability. Their chief use for delight is in privateness and retiring; for ornament, is in discourse; and for ability, is in the judgment and disposition of business. For expert men can execute, and perhaps judge of particulars, one by one; but the general counsels, and the plots and marshalling of affairs come best from those that are learned.
Page 192 - HOUSES are built to live in, and not to look on ; therefore let use be preferred before uniformity, except where both may be had. Leave the goodly fabrics of houses, for beauty only, to the enchanted palaces of the poets, who build them with small cost. He that builds a fair house upon an ill seat, 2 committeth himself to prison...
Page 139 - A man can scarce allege his own merits with modesty, much less extol them ; a man cannot sometimes brook to supplicate or beg, and a number of the like ; but all these things are graceful in a friend's mouth, which are blushing in a man's own.
Page 125 - IT had been hard for him that spake it to have put more truth and untruth together in few words than in that speech, " Whosoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god...
Page 86 - 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 16 - But yet the spirit of Job was in a better tune: Shall we (saith he) take good at God's hands, and not be content to take evil also ? And so of friends in a proportion.
Page xlvii - And because the breath of flowers is far sweeter in the air (where it comes and goes like the warbling of music) than in the hand, therefore nothing is more fit for that delight, than to know what be the flowers and plants that do best perfume the air.