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... without employment is a vague and languid thing . -Bacon . Ignavia corpus hebetat , labor firmat . - Celsus . CONCLUSION . - Hence ... THEME XI . The greatest Events are often drawn by EMPLOYMENT IS THE SALT OF LIFE . 31.
... without employment is a vague and languid thing . -Bacon . Ignavia corpus hebetat , labor firmat . - Celsus . CONCLUSION . - Hence ... THEME XI . The greatest Events are often drawn by EMPLOYMENT IS THE SALT OF LIFE . 31.
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... Bacon , the learned friar , was accused of necro- mancy , merely because his immense knowledge gave him apparently superhuman power . Solomon . See 1 Kings , iii . 5-13 , and 1 Chron . xxix . 25 . QUOTATIONS . - A little wit is worth a ...
... Bacon , the learned friar , was accused of necro- mancy , merely because his immense knowledge gave him apparently superhuman power . Solomon . See 1 Kings , iii . 5-13 , and 1 Chron . xxix . 25 . QUOTATIONS . - A little wit is worth a ...
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... Bacon . Beauty is external virtue . - Bacon . He who observes not decorum in small matters may be a great man , but certainly is not a wise one . Virtue and wisdom , without address , are like foreign languages without an interpreter ...
... Bacon . Beauty is external virtue . - Bacon . He who observes not decorum in small matters may be a great man , but certainly is not a wise one . Virtue and wisdom , without address , are like foreign languages without an interpreter ...
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... Bacon . The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is vanity.— Prov . xxi . 6 . It is in life as in a journey , where the shortest road is the dirtiest , and yet the better not much about . - Bacon . I have heard you say , Honour and ...
... Bacon . The getting of treasures by a lying tongue is vanity.— Prov . xxi . 6 . It is in life as in a journey , where the shortest road is the dirtiest , and yet the better not much about . - Bacon . I have heard you say , Honour and ...
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... Bacon , who died at the age of 66 years ) lived beyond the average age of man : thus , Roger Bacon lived to the age of 80 ; the hon . Robert Boyle to 70 ; Locke to 73 ; and Sir Isaac Newton to 85 . The same may be said of foreigners ...
... Bacon , who died at the age of 66 years ) lived beyond the average age of man : thus , Roger Bacon lived to the age of 80 ; the hon . Robert Boyle to 70 ; Locke to 73 ; and Sir Isaac Newton to 85 . The same may be said of foreigners ...
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Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
1ST REASON 2ND REASON 3RD REASON 4TH REASON action ancient beautiful better blessed body Catiline cheerful Cicero classical companions CONCLUSION conscience contented corrupted cultivation danger death deceived Deioces delight disease doth dress earth employment evil excite exercise fable Faliscans favour fear feel fire folly fool foolish give gold Greek habit hand happiness hath heart HISTORICAL ILLUSTRATIONS honest honour idle INTRODUCTION judgment Julius Cæsar king labour living Lord Bacon man's ment mental Milo of Crotona mind moral Nabal nature never nihil pain passions person pleasure pride Prov proverbs punishment quæ quam QUOTATIONS REASON.-A REASON.-Every REASON.-It REASON.-The rich righteous Romans salt Samnites says Shakspeare Siculi SIMILES sorrow soul spirit suffered sweet taste temper thee THEME things thou shalt thought tree Trojan war truth unto vice Virgil virtue whole wicked wisdom wise words
Beliebte Passagen
Seite 369 - Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions? Fed with the same food, hurt with the same weapons, subject to the same diseases, healed by the same means, warmed and cooled by the same winter and summer as a Christian is? If you prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, shall we not revenge?
Seite 198 - Most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities, that the power of Christ may rest upon me. Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in necessities, in persecutions, in distresses for Christ's sake: for when I am weak, then am I strong.
Seite 369 - Lands intersected by a narrow frith Abhor each other. Mountains interposed Make enemies of nations, who had else Like kindred drops been mingled into one.
Seite 330 - For all things are yours ; whether Paul, or Apollos, or Cephas, or the world, or life, or death, or things present, or things to come ; all are yours ; and ye are Christ's ; and Christ is God's.
Seite 273 - For even when we were with you, this we commanded you, that if any would not work, neither should he eat. For we hear that there are some which walk among you disorderly, working not at all, but are busybodies. Now them that are such we command and exhort by our Lord Jesus Christ, that with quietness they work, and eat their own bread.
Seite 82 - OF all the causes which conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.
Seite 98 - For when the Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained in the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves : 15 "Which shew the work of the law written in their hearts, their conscience also bearing witness, and their thoughts the mean while accusing, or else excusing one another;) 16 In the day when God shall judge the secrets of men, by Jesus Christ, according to my gospel.
Seite 240 - Why has not man a microscopic eye? For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Seite 179 - From nature's chain whatever link you strike, Tenth, or ten thousandth, breaks the chain alike. And if each system in gradation roll, Alike essential to the amazing whole, The least confusion but in one, not all That system only, but the whole must fall.
Seite 394 - Mid pleasures and palaces though we may roam, Be it ever so humble, there's no place like home...