| Francis Bacon - 1901 - 312 pages
...themselves, for their owne ends. IV. OF REVENGE. REVENGE is a kinde of Wilde Justice; which the more Mans Nature runs to, the more ought Law to weed it out....even with his Enemy ; But in passing it over, he is Superiour : For it is a Princes part to Pardon. And Salomon, I am sure, saith, // is the glory of a... | |
| Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...remembrance of death.' That ' Of Revenge ' gives a famous definition : ' Revenge is a wild kind of Conquest of the Normans it was the Anglesaxon, and...the Walsh, or as others affirme the Cornish : I for ' Of Gardens ' he says : ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human... | |
| Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...remembrance of death.' That ' Of Revenge ' gives a famous definition : ' Revenge is a wild kind of Vm ' Of Gardens ' he says : ' God Almighty first planted a garden ; and indeed it is the purest of human... | |
| Quotations - 1903 - 1186 pages
...the dark; uiul iw tluit nutural fear in children is increased with talos, 80 is tho other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out. OfEevenge. It was a high speech of Sonera (after the manner of the Stoics), that " The good things... | |
| John Bartlett - Quotations - 1903 - 1188 pages
...the dark ; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other. Of Death. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it Out Of Revenge. It was a high speech of Seneca (after the manner of the Stoics), that " The good things... | |
| Maxims - 1905 - 330 pages
...eliminate them, you cannot escape them. You can diminish them by dominating them.— BATTEN'S Wedge. Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more...nature runs to the more ought law to weed it out. — BACON. Riches are not an end of life, but an instrument of life. — BEECHER. Riches have wings,... | |
| United States - 1898 - 592 pages
...to go in the dark; and as that natural fear in children is increased with tales, so is the other." "Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more...nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." — Then follows without pause a wealth of wisdom upon two or three aspects of the matter in hand,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1908 - 340 pages
...righteousness of God. 4 how 8 inculcated 6 deeds " interested IV OF REVENGE REVENGE is a kinde of Wilde' Justice, which the more Man's Nature runs to, the...but the Revenge of that wrong putteth the Law out of Office8. Certainly, in taking Revenge, A Man is but even with his 5 Enemy; But in passing it over,... | |
| Francis Bacon - Essays - 1908 - 272 pages
...perruaded pressure of consciences, were commonly interessed 31 therein themselves for their own ends. IV OF REVENGE REVENGE is a kind of wild justice; which the...to weed it out. For as for the first wrong, it doth out offend the law; but the revenge of that wrong putteth the law out of office. Certainly, in taking... | |
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