Book, Aphorism

 1      Pre        |              and no way able to set matters right again, has had the
 2      Pre        | understanding, very small would the matters have been which, even with
 3      Pre        |           it is that men proceed in matters intellectual — with just
 4        1, XXVI  |            as ordinarily applied in matters of nature, I call for the
 5        1, LXII  |             such novelties, even in matters speculative; so that men
 6        1, LXVI  |         observations in these other matters — either reducing them to
 7        1, LXX   |          circuit and meet with many matters, but make little progress;
 8        1, LXXI  |             up, but letting weighty matters sink. Still even they were
 9        1, LXXVII|         auguries is from consent in matters intellectual (divinity excepted,
10        1, LXXVII|          from moral to intellectual matters the saying of Phocion, that
11        1, XC    |           great distinction between matters of state and the arts; for
12        1, XC    |           light is not the same. In matters of state a change even for
13        1, XCII  |       serious men are wont in these matters to be altogether distrustful,
14        1, XCIX  |   understanding, time, and means on matters and pursuits of far less
15        1, XCIX  |           to Things, advanced these matters, as I suppose, some little
16        1, XCIX  |              nor do I think that it matters much to the fortunes of
17        1, XCIX  |             and withal unprofitable matters. My purpose, on the contrary,
18        1, XCIX  |              nor do I think that it matters any more to the business
19        1, XCIX  |             course of ages, than it matters to mankind whether the new
20        1, XCIX  |            shame, and the like; for matters political; and again for
21        1, XCIX  |     reformation of a state in civil matters is seldom brought in without
22        1, XXVII |        connection with such serious matters as we are now about) are
23        1, XXXI  |           be of much value.~Lastly, matters of superstition and magic (
24        1, XXXII |            they serve to digest the matters that enter the understanding,
25        1, XLI   |        clearly distinguished. These matters, however, I touch but briefly,
26        1, XLIV  |            the admixture of useless matters, or through the multiplicity
27        1, LI    |         sure indications. And as in matters solid and true I aspire