| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 416 pages
...actions, has observed with great penetration, " * It is good to consider deformity, not as 3 signe, which is more deceivable, but as a cause, which seldom...spur in himself, to rescue and deliver himself from scorne." I do not think it improbable, that this circumstance might animate our poet to double his... | |
| Joseph Warton - 1806 - 422 pages
...consider deformity, not as a signe, which is more deceivable, hut as a cause, which seldom failetli of the effect. Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his...spur in himself, to rescue and deliver himself from scorne. " I do not think it improbable, that this circumstance might animate our poet to double his... | |
| Nathan Drake - English essays - 1811 - 424 pages
...lord Bacon ; which maxim may also serve as a sort of moral to this long paper on a short man : '*' Whosoever hath any thing fixed in his person that...himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn." THE GENIUS, No. 2, Saturday, June 20, 1761. Mr. Colman, the author of this very humorous paper on little... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue; therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which...but in process of time by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...obscured bv the sun of discipline and virtue ; therefore it is good to • consider of deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which...hath any thing fixed in his person that doth induce eontempt, hath also a perpetual spur in himself to rescue and deliver himself from scorn ; therefore... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue : therefore it is good to consider of Deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which...but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue : therefore it is good to consider of Deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which...but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...obscured by the sun of discipline and virtue : therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which...but in process of time, by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...sign which is more deceivable, but as a cause which seldom farileth of the effect. Whosoever hath anyv thing fixed in his person that doth induce contempt,...but in process of time by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, " f to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
| British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...virtue ; therefore it is good to consider of deformity, not as a sign which is more deceivable.but as a cause which seldom faileth of the effect. Whosoever...but in process of time by a general habit. Also it stirreth in them industry, and especially of this kind, to watch and observe the weakness of others,... | |
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