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Achelous actions Æneid affection allegory alludes amongst ancient Arthur Gorges arts atheism Augustus Cæsar beautiful better body Cæsar called cause Certainly commonly corruption counsel court cunning custom danger death denotes discourse divine doth Duke of Guise earth England envy Epicurus Essays evil EXPLAINED fable fable seems fame favor fear fortune gods hand hath Henry Hippomenes honor human invented judge judgment Julius Cæsar Jupiter justice justly kind kings Latin learning likewise Lord Bacon maketh man's mankind manner matter means men's ment mind moral motion natural philosophy nature never noble Novum Organum observed opinion Ovid Pentheus persons philosophy pleasure poets Pompey princes Prometheus Proserpine Queen religion riches Romans saith secret servants side speak speech Tacitus thereof things thou thought tion true truth Typhon unto usury virtue whence wherein wisdom wise words
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Page 27 - Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt. Dispraise or blame, nothing but well and fair. And what may quiet us in a death so noble.
Page 265 - 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.
Page 290 - The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new ? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Page 265 - To spend too much time in studies is sloth; to use them too much for ornament is affectation; to make judgment wholly by their rules is the humor of a scholar.
Page 58 - 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 60 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
Page 264 - 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 61 - ... of gold and silver, which may make the metal work the better, but it embaseth it ; for these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent, which goeth basely upon the belly and not upon the feet. There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious.
Page 68 - AND unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans write • These things saith the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God ; I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot : I would thou wert cold or hot.
Page 125 - 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.