The Harvard Classics, Volumen 3P.F. Collier & Son Company, 1909 |
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... Riches . XXXV . Of Prophecies XXXVI . Of Ambition · PAGE 7 7 9 II 15 16 17 20 22 23 28 29 33 34 36 38 44 47 48 50 55 59 60 63 65 66 67 69 75 76 85 86 87 89 92 · 95 98 XXXVII . Of Masques and Triumphs XXXVIII . Of Nature.
... Riches . XXXV . Of Prophecies XXXVI . Of Ambition · PAGE 7 7 9 II 15 16 17 20 22 23 28 29 33 34 36 38 44 47 48 50 55 59 60 63 65 66 67 69 75 76 85 86 87 89 92 · 95 98 XXXVII . Of Masques and Triumphs XXXVIII . Of Nature.
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... rich man , and another except to it , Yea , but he hath a great charge of chil- dren ; as if it were an abatement to his riches . But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and ...
... rich man , and another except to it , Yea , but he hath a great charge of chil- dren ; as if it were an abatement to his riches . But the most ordinary cause of a single life is liberty , especially in certain self - pleasing and ...
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... riches and wisdom . This passion hath his floods in very times of weakness ; which are great prosperity and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less ob- served : both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and ...
... riches and wisdom . This passion hath his floods in very times of weakness ; which are great prosperity and great adversity ; though this latter hath been less ob- served : both which times kindle love , and make it more fervent , and ...
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... RICHES are for spending , and spending for honor and good actions . Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited ... rich , but to the third 10 Settling in life . 1 Cheating . part . It is no baseness for the greatest to OF EXPENSE 75 XXX.
... RICHES are for spending , and spending for honor and good actions . Therefore extraordinary expense must be limited ... rich , but to the third 10 Settling in life . 1 Cheating . part . It is no baseness for the greatest to OF EXPENSE 75 XXX.
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... riches to the treasury out of the spoils ; and donatives to the army . But that honor perhaps were not fit for monarchies ; except it be in the person of the monarch himself , or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman ...
... riches to the treasury out of the spoils ; and donatives to the army . But that honor perhaps were not fit for monarchies ; except it be in the person of the monarch himself , or his sons ; as it came to pass in the times of the Roman ...
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Página 125 - 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 208 - I cannot praise a fugitive and cloistered virtue, unexercised and unbreathed, that never sallies out and sees her adversary, but slinks out of the race where that immortal garland is to be run for, not without dust and heat.
Página 199 - Dragon's teeth; and being sown up and down, may chance to spring up armed men. And yet on the other hand, unless wariness be used, as good almost kill a man as kill a good book. Who kills a man, kills a reasonable creature. God's image ; but he who destroys a good book kills reason itself ; killfe the image of God, as it were in the eye.
Página 20 - The best composition and temperature is to have openness in fame and opinion ; secrecy in habit; dissimulation in seasonable use; and a power to feign, if there be no remedy.
Página 65 - And if time of course alter things to the worse, and wisdom and counsel shall not alter them to the better, what shall be the end?
Página 229 - The light which we have gained, was given us not to be ever staring on, but by it to discover onward things more remote from our knowledge.
Página 199 - It is true, no age can restore a life whereof perhaps there is no great loss; and revolutions of ages do not oft recover the loss of a rejected truth, for the want of which whole nations fare the worse. We should be wary therefore what persecution we raise against the living labours of public men, how we spill that seasoned life of man preserved and stored up in books...
Página 22 - He that hath wife and children, hath given hostages to fortune ; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.
Página 233 - ... is so sprightly up, as that it has not only wherewith to guard well its own freedom and safety, but to spare and to bestow upon the solidest and sublimest points of controversy, and new invention, it betokens us not degenerated, nor drooping to a fatal decay...
Página 231 - Yet these are the men cried out against for schismatics and sectaries, as if, while the temple of the Lord was building, some cutting, some squaring the marble, others hewing the cedars, there should be a sort of irrational men, who could not consider there must be many schisms and many dissections made in the quarry and in the timber, ere the house of God can be built.