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Pagina 31
... Cicero saith : Quam volumus , licet , patres conscripti , nos amemus , tamen nec numero Hispanos , nec robore Gallos , nec calliditate Panos , nec artibus Græcos , nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et terræ domestico nativoque sensu ...
... Cicero saith : Quam volumus , licet , patres conscripti , nos amemus , tamen nec numero Hispanos , nec robore Gallos , nec calliditate Panos , nec artibus Græcos , nec denique hoc ipso hujus gentis et terræ domestico nativoque sensu ...
Pagina 44
... Cicero says of Pompey ) are sui amantes sine rivali , are many times unfortunate . And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves , they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune ; whose wings ...
... Cicero says of Pompey ) are sui amantes sine rivali , are many times unfortunate . And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves , they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune ; whose wings ...
Pagina 46
... Cicero saith of Piso , that when he answered him he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead , and bent the other down to his chin ; Respondes , altero ad frontem sublato , altero ad mentum depresso supercilio ; crudelitatem tibi non ...
... Cicero saith of Piso , that when he answered him he fetched one of his brows up to his forehead , and bent the other down to his chin ; Respondes , altero ad frontem sublato , altero ad mentum depresso supercilio ; crudelitatem tibi non ...
Pagina 49
... Cicero's Philippics , called him venefica , witch , as if he had enchanted Cæsar . Augustus raised Agrippa , though of mean birth , to that height , as , when he consulted with Mæcenas2 about the marriage of his daughter Julia , Mæcenas ...
... Cicero's Philippics , called him venefica , witch , as if he had enchanted Cæsar . Augustus raised Agrippa , though of mean birth , to that height , as , when he consulted with Mæcenas2 about the marriage of his daughter Julia , Mæcenas ...
Pagina 57
... Cicero , writing to Atticus of Pompey's preparation against Cæsar , saith , Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est ; putat enim , qui mari potitur , eum rerum potiri ; and without doubt , Pompey had tired out Cæsar , if upon vain ...
... Cicero , writing to Atticus of Pompey's preparation against Cæsar , saith , Consilium Pompeii plane Themistocleum est ; putat enim , qui mari potitur , eum rerum potiri ; and without doubt , Pompey had tired out Cæsar , if upon vain ...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: Including His Moral and Historical Works ... with ... Francis Bacon Volledige weergave - 1889 |
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Populaire passages
Pagina 91 - Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. 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.
Pagina 91 - Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man. And therefore, if a man write little, he had need have a great memory; if he confer little, he had need have a present wit: and if he read little, he had need have much cunning, to seem to know that he doth not. Histories make men wise; poets witty; the mathematics subtile; natural philosophy deep; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Pagina 2 - It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed upon the sea: a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to see a battle, and the adventures thereof below: but no pleasure is comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of 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.
Pagina 48 - midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless ; Minions of splendour shrinking from distress ! None that, with kindred consciousness endued, If we were not, would seem to smile the less Of all that flatter'd, follow'd, sought and sued ; This is to be alone ; this, this is solitude ! XXVII.
Pagina 91 - Bowling is good for the stone and reins; shooting for the lungs and breast; gentle walking for the stomach; riding for the head; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen; for they are cymini sectores...
Pagina 9 - We see in needle-works and embroideries, it is more pleasing to have a lively work upon a sad and solemn ground, than to have a dark and melancholy work upon a lightsome ground : judge therefore of the pleasure of the heart by the pleasure of the eye. Certainly virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when they are incensed or crushed: for Prosperity doth best discover vice, but Adversity doth best discover virtue.
Pagina 3 - MEN fear Death, as children fear to go in the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Certainly, the contemplation of death, as the wages of sin and passage to another world, is holy and religious ; but the fear of it, as a tribute due unto nature, is weak. Yet in religious meditations there is sometimes mixture of vanity and of superstition. You shall read in some of the friars...
Pagina 91 - 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...
Pagina 90 - They perfect nature, and are perfected by experience: for natural abilities are like natural plants, that need pruning, by study; and studies themselves, do give forth directions too much at large, except they be bounded in by experience. Crafty men condemn studies, simple men admire them, and wise men use them; for they teach not their own use; but that is a wisdom without them, and above them, won by observation.
Pagina 144 - This grew speedily to an excess ; for men began to hunt more after words than matter ; and more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round and clean composition of the sentence, and the sweet falling of the clauses, and the varying and illustration of their works with tropes and figures, than after the weight of matter, worth of subject, soundness of argument, life of invention, or depth of judgment.