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... greater blasphemy to personáte God , and bring Him in say- ing , I will descend and be like the prince of darkness . And what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and exe- crable actions of murdering ...
... greater blasphemy to personáte God , and bring Him in say- ing , I will descend and be like the prince of darkness . And what is it better , to make the cause of religion to descend to the cruel and exe- crable actions of murdering ...
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... greater benediction , and the clearer revelation of God's favour . Yet even in the Old Testament , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more ...
... greater benediction , and the clearer revelation of God's favour . Yet even in the Old Testament , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more ...
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... greater pains and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities . The standing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . Cum non sis qui fueris , non esse ...
... greater pains and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities . The standing is slippery , and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse , which is a melancholy thing . Cum non sis qui fueris , non esse ...
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... greater than the feeling . Dolendi modus , timendi non item . Besides , in great oppressions , the same things that provoke the patience do withal mate the courage ; but in fears it is 4 1 Primum mobile was the " first movement , " the ...
... greater than the feeling . Dolendi modus , timendi non item . Besides , in great oppressions , the same things that provoke the patience do withal mate the courage ; but in fears it is 4 1 Primum mobile was the " first movement , " the ...
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... greater number that live low and gather more . Therefore the multi- plying of nobility , and other degrees of quality , in an over - proportion to the common people , doth speedily bring a State to necessity ; and so doth likewise an ...
... greater number that live low and gather more . Therefore the multi- plying of nobility , and other degrees of quality , in an over - proportion to the common people , doth speedily bring a State to necessity ; and so doth likewise an ...
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.
Página 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.