Book, Chapter

  1      1, Int  |  instrument to make itself fit for great and small works. And for
  2      1, Int  |          that triplicity, which in great veneration was ascribed
  3      1, I    |         are to be accepted of with great limitation and caution;
  4      1, I    |         quantity of knowledge, how great soever, that can make the
  5      1, I    |        hath proceeded, that divers great learned men have been heretical,
  6      1, II   |           that pair, Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, the Dictator;
  7      1, II   |        call for scholars that were great generals, than generals
  8      1, II   |            than generals that were great scholars, let him take Epaminondas
  9      1, II   |        Gordianus the younger, with great applause and contentation
 10      1, II   |           Demosthenes, “there is a great difference between the things
 11      1, III  |            delicacy of princes and great persons had long since turned
 12      1, III  |        precepts or examples of too great height. And yet hereof they
 13      1, III  |         such whereby I should grow great amongst you, and you become
 14      1, III  |           and dilate it, wanteth a great faculty. But there is a
 15      1, III  |          could make a small town a great state.” So no doubt many
 16      1, III  |           usually in the houses of great persons, being little better
 17      1, III  |           the philosopher that the great lady took to ride with her
 18      1, III  |          names; or if to kings and great persons, it was to some
 19      1, IV   |             And again, because the great labour then was with the
 20      1, IV   |      elocution. For hereof we have great examples in Xenophon, Cicero,
 21      1, IV   |           hereof likewise there is great use, for surely, to the
 22      1, IV   |      nature or time, did out of no great quantity of matter and infinite
 23      1, IV   |            fair room to set up one great light, or branching candlestick
 24      1, IV   |           those schoolmen to their great thirst of truth and unwearied
 25      1, IV   |           excellent lights, to the great advancement of all learning
 26      1, IV   |          but as they are, they are great undertakers indeed, and
 27      1, IV   |       Fingunt simul creduntque: so great an affinity hath fiction
 28      1, IV   |       badges of Antichrist, to the great scandal and detriment of
 29      1, IV   |            much fabulous matter, a great part not only untried, but
 30      1, IV   |         notoriously untrue, to the great derogation of the credit
 31      1, IV   |        error and vanity; which the great professors themselves have
 32      1, IV   |            their vines, they had a great vintage the year following:
 33      1, IV   |            hath brought to light a great number of good and fruitful
 34      1, IV   |            say no more, but so let great authors have their due,
 35      1, V    |            hath proceeded from too great a reverence, and a kind
 36      1, V    |      little worlds, and not in the great and common world;” for they
 37      1, VI   |         after the flood, the first great judgment of God upon the
 38      1, VI   |            equal distance, is with great elegancy noted. And in another
 39      1, VI   |         that game; considering the great commandment of wits and
 40      1, VI   |           consider and magnify the great and wonderful works of God,
 41      1, VII  |        insomuch as Constantine the Great in emulation was wont to
 42      1, VII  |          examples of Alexander the Great and Caesar the Dictator (
 43      1, VII  |        taught under Aristotle, the great philosopher, who dedicated
 44      1, VII  |         masters. When upon Darius’ great offers Parmenio had said, “
 45      1, VII  |           of all that resolve upon great enterprises; for this was
 46      1, VII  |           him not as Alexander the Great, but as Aristotle’s scholar,
 47      1, VII  |           that he took it to be as great a glory to himself to observe
 48      1, VII  |         chiefly it was a speech of great allurement toward his own
 49      1, VII  |           came in message from the great king to the Grecians, after
 50      1, VIII |           new, or because they are great. For novelty, no man that
 51      1, VIII |        magnitude, as Alexander the Great, after that he was used
 52      1, VIII |          after that he was used to great armies, and the great conquests
 53      1, VIII |           to great armies, and the great conquests of the spacious
 54      1, VIII |          and conscience of men; so great as if they have once tasted
 55      1, VIII |         did, notwithstanding their great largesses and donatives,
 56      1, VIII |             no nor of the kings or great personages of much later
 57      2, Int  |         therefore, amongst so many great foundations of colleges
 58      2, Int  |            And this I take to be a great cause that hath hindered
 59      2, Int  |            of those arts, which is great and universal, is almost
 60      2, Int  |   universities, which do snake too great a divorce between invention
 61      2, Int  |            causes of want, and the great quantity of books maketh
 62      2, Int  |      curiosities, and things of no great use; and others to be of
 63      2, Int  |            and others to be of too great difficulty, and almost impossibility
 64      2, I    |           for two reasons, both of great weight: the one to correct
 65      2, I    |          and small things discover great, better than great can discover
 66      2, I    |        discover great, better than great can discover the small;
 67      2, I    |        likewise the nature of this great city of the world, and the
 68      2, II   |       memorable, if this island of Great Britain, as it is now joined
 69      2, II   |         whose time also began that great alteration in the state
 70      2, II   |           therein; for there is no great action but hath some good
 71      2, II   |          with antiquity, that this great building of the world had
 72      2, II   |            is already performed in great part: the learning of these
 73      2, III  |           For apophthegms, it is a great loss of that book of Caesar’
 74      2, IV   |            fall out sometimes with great felicity: as in the fable
 75      2, IV   |         that troubled himself with great contention to fasten the
 76      2, V    |           are so common, and in so great mass, and others so rare,
 77      2, VII  |  speculative and operative, have a great connection between themselves;
 78      2, VII  |          deficience, or at least a great improficience in the sciences
 79      2, VII  |            specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of
 80      2, VIII |           no use in itself, but of great use in respect it maketh
 81      2, VIII |       natural magic, which is that great liberty and latitude of
 82      2, VIII |        cannot but seem a matter of great profit, to see before them
 83      2, VIII |           full of sense, but of no great depth; and that of Fracastorius,
 84      2, IX   |           denied, but that it is a great discovery of dissimulations,
 85      2, IX   |           of dissimulations, and a great direction in business.~(
 86      2, IX   |            accidentia animi, as of great force to further or hinder
 87      2, IX   |      specially it is an inquiry of great depth and worth concerning
 88      2, IX   |     inquisition of this part is of great use, though it needeth,
 89      2, X    |            which are extant in the great world. But thus much is
 90      2, X    |            a little occasion and a great deal of sloth and default;
 91      2, X    |     reproved; yet in regard of the great use of this observation,
 92      2, X    |            miss of it can work any great effect upon the body of
 93      2, XI   |      dangerously a palliation of a great part of ceremonial magic.
 94      2, XIII |         from a field in a flower a great way off to her hive? Who
 95      2, XIII |            too long, nor speak too great upon a promise.~(6) The
 96      2, XIII |            being broken unto it by great experience, delivereth it
 97      2, XIII | Demosthenes; who, in regard of the great force that the entrance
 98      2, XIII |            knowledge, as things of great use, being mixtures of logic
 99      2, XIV  | contradiction, which passeth for a great faculty, and no doubt is
100      2, XIV  |            and no doubt is of very great advantage, though the difference
101      2, XIV  |            but an elenche; for the great sophism of all sophisms
102      2, XIV  |            in Neptune’s temple the great number of pictures of such
103      2, XIV  |        shows or plays. For if that great Work-master had been of
104      2, XIV  |            one part of judgment of great excellency which to mine
105      2, XV   |    common-places to be a matter of great use and essence in studying,
106      2, XV   |          estimation of repeating a great number of names or words
107      2, XV   |     faculties of the mind there is great copy, and such as by device
108      2, XVI  |         although it may seem of no great use, considering that words
109      2, XVI  |             but, as things are, of great use. For suppose that ciphers
110      2, XVI  |           thought I seek to make a great muster-roll of sciences,
111      2, XVI  |           that as there be many of great account in their countries
112      2, XVI  |         studies in them, they seem great matters.~
113      2, XVII |         whereof the consequence is great, is the delivery of knowledge
114      2, XVII |              as a man shall make a great show of an art, which, if
115      2, XVII |       method, which is likewise of great weight, is the handling
116      2, XVII |            handled. For there is a great difference in delivery of
117      2, XVII |      herein Ramus merited better a great deal in reviving the good
118      2, XVIII|         whereof the consequence is great, is the delivery of knowledge
119      2, XVIII|              as a man shall make a great show of an art, which, if
120      2, XVIII|       method, which is likewise of great weight, is the handling
121      2, XVIII|            handled. For there is a great difference in delivery of
122      2, XVIII|      herein Ramus merited better a great deal in reviving the good
123      2, XIX  |           rash diligence hath done great prejudice. For these critics
124      2, XIX  |           which in many cases give great light to true interpretations.~
125      2, XIX  |           divers considerations of great fruit.~As first, the timing
126      2, XIX  |      therefore it is an inquiry of great wisdom, what kinds of wits
127      2, XIX  |          of exercises is matter of great consequence to hurt or help:
128      2, XIX  |          as good; so as there is a great judgment to be had in the
129      2, XIX  |            yet when they fall into great men or great matters, do
130      2, XIX  |        they fall into great men or great matters, do work great and
131      2, XIX  |          or great matters, do work great and important effects: whereof
132      2, XX   |           s nature and spirit with great quickness of argument and
133      2, XX   |            given, in my opinion, a great light to that which followed;
134      2, XX   |           and being dissuaded with great vehemency and instance by
135      2, XXI  |          passive good, can have no great latitude. Cogita quamdiu
136      2, XXI  |  themselves, that virtue beareth a great part in felicity; and if
137      2, XXI  |         morality, and policy, with great aspersion of all other arts;
138      2, XXI  |            government deliver in a great cause of judicature, which
139      2, XXI  |         excellent persons, wiser a great deal than such observers;
140      2, XXI  |         where the question is of a great deal of good to ensue of
141      2, XXII |           part. So saith Cicero in great commendation of Cato the
142      2, XXII |          which are proportioned to great matters, and others to small (
143      2, XXII |            considering it is of so great ministry and suppeditation
144      2, XXII |        maketh an observation, that great and sudden fortune for the
145      2, XXII |           find painted forth, with great life, how affections are
146      2, XXII |           perform and overcome any great task.~(10) Another precept
147      2, XXII |          by the one you may gain a great step, by the other you may
148      2, XXII |       there not divers precepts of great caution and direction appertaining
149      2, XXII |          not one of the fathers in great indignation call poesy vinum
150      2, XXIII|          suorum. Again, states, as great engines, move slowly, and
151      2, XXIII|       discretion of behaviour is a great thief of meditation. Again,
152      2, XXIII|     collected into writing, to the great derogation of learning and
153      2, XXIII|           effect, that there is no great concurrence between learning
154      2, XXIII|          to find: as it was judged great wisdom in Pompeius Magnus
155      2, XXIII|     requiem. Here is described the great disadvantage which a wise
156      2, XXIII|         others. For letters have a great and more particular representation
157      2, XXIII|    Athenian, who, having done many great services to the state in
158      2, XXIII|         therefore, those that were great politiques indeed ever ascribed
159      2, XXIII|          less show. For there is a great advantage in the well setting
160      2, XXIII|          was, yet he could make no great matter of it, because men
161      2, XXIII|       supposing they are things of great purchase, when in many cases
162      2, XXIII|         indefatigable he was to no great purpose, Haec omnia magno
163      2, XXIII|        matters which do occupy too great a quantity of time, but
164      2, XXIII|       where they keep sentinel, in great part clear and transparent.
165      2, XXIII|          suorum. Again, states, as great engines, move slowly, and
166      2, XXIII|       discretion of behaviour is a great thief of meditation. Again,
167      2, XXIII|     collected into writing, to the great derogation of learning and
168      2, XXIII|           effect, that there is no great concurrence between learning
169      2, XXIII|          to find: as it was judged great wisdom in Pompeius Magnus
170      2, XXIII|     requiem. Here is described the great disadvantage which a wise
171      2, XXIII|         others. For letters have a great and more particular representation
172      2, XXIII|    Athenian, who, having done many great services to the state in
173      2, XXIII|         therefore, those that were great politiques indeed ever ascribed
174      2, XXIII|          less show. For there is a great advantage in the well setting
175      2, XXIII|          was, yet he could make no great matter of it, because men
176      2, XXIII|       supposing they are things of great purchase, when in many cases
177      2, XXIII|         indefatigable he was to no great purpose, Haec omnia magno
178      2, XXIII|        matters which do occupy too great a quantity of time, but
179      2, XXIII|       where they keep sentinel, in great part clear and transparent.
180      2, XXV  |            faith which concern the great mysteries of the Deity,
181      2, XXV  |           was that they had in too great reverence and veneration
182      2, XXV  |           must be confessed that a great part of the law moral is
183      2, XXV  |          latitude thereof, is very great and general: for it is not
184      2, XXV  |         the more, in regard of the great and blessed use thereof;
185      2, XXV  |          the blessed style of that great doctor of the Gentiles,
186      2, XXV  |             So as it is a thing of great use well to define what,