Reviews and essaysWard, Lock, and Company, 1881 - 244 páginas |
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... . 4to . London : 1834 . LORD BACON- 67 • 99 The Works of Francis Bacon , Lord Chancellor of England . A new Edition . By BASIL MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 · 150 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE- Memoir of the.
... . 4to . London : 1834 . LORD BACON- 67 • 99 The Works of Francis Bacon , Lord Chancellor of England . A new Edition . By BASIL MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 · 150 LIFE AND WRITINGS OF SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE- Memoir of the.
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... MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 . * WE E return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu as well for his very valuable edition of Lord Bacon's works , as for the instruc- tion of the immortal author contained in the last ...
... MONTAGU , Esq . 16 vols . 8vo . London : 1825-1834 . * WE E return our hearty thanks to Mr. Montagu as well for his very valuable edition of Lord Bacon's works , as for the instruc- tion of the immortal author contained in the last ...
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... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will pro- duce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is ...
... Montagu's faith is sincere and implicit . He practises no trickery . He conceals nothing . He puts the facts before us in the full confidence that they will pro- duce on our minds the effect which they have produced on his own . It is ...
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... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was little dis- posed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of ...
... Montagu is more charitable . He supposes that Burleigh was influenced merely by affection for his nephew , and was little dis- posed to encourage him to rely on others rather than on himself , and to venture on the quicksands of ...
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... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
... Montagu not merely excusable , but deserving of high admiration . The integrity and benevolence of this gentleman are so well known that our readers will probably be at a loss to conceive by what steps he can have arrived at so ...
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Página 126 - What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield: And what is else not to be overcome?
Página 237 - 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 subtle ; natural philosophy deep ; moral grave; logic and rhetoric able to contend.
Página 356 - The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him : but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed ! good were it for that man if he had never been born.
Página 237 - Crafty men contemn 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 5 - For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.
Página 237 - 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 151 - But no such cause can affect the silent converse which we hold with the highest of human intellects. That placid intercourse is disturbed by no jealousies or resentments. These are the old friends who are never seen with new faces, who are the same in wealth and in poverty, in glory and in obscurity. With the dead there is no rivalry. In the dead there is no change. Plato is never sullen. Cervantes is never petulant. Demosthenes never comes unseasonably. Dante never stays too long. No difference...
Página 177 - it is as true as a thing that God knoweth, that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your Lordship than this, that I may safely be that to you now which I was truly before.