Book, Chapter

 1      1, II   |       divert men’s travails from action and business, and bringeth
 2      1, II   |          men love business as an action according to nature, as
 3      1, II   |           taking pleasure in the action itself, and not in the purchase,
 4      1, II   |         yet idle in business and action, it groweth from some weakness
 5      1, III  |     small and ordinary points of action, so as the vulgar sort of
 6      1, V    |       not unlike the two ways of action commonly spoken of by the
 7      1, V    |  knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly
 8      1, V    |      planet of civil society and action, howbeit, I do not mean,
 9      1, V    |          when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned
10      2, Int  |   learning should be referred to action, they judge well; but in
11      2, Int  |          those which were in the action;” else will the carriages
12      2, Int  |      memory. Whereas in life and action there is least use of either
13      2, II   | occasions, and other passages of action. For this is the true nature
14      2, II   |         time, or a person, or an action. The first we call chronicles,
15      2, II   |         state ecclesiastical, an action which seldom cometh upon
16      2, II   |   therein; for there is no great action but hath some good pen which
17      2, III  |        and all other passages of action. And such as are written
18      2, VII  |     watchful and severe eye upon action, operation, and the use
19      2, XII  |   position or decree, the latter action or execution. It is true
20      2, XII  |      truth, but the face towards action hath the print of good;
21      2, XIV  |        or vicious form, the same action of the mind which inventeth,
22      2, XV   |   without all life or respect to action.~(2) For the other principal
23      2, XVII |         but less fit to point to action; for they carry a kind of
24      2, XVII |        and the longitude towards action; that is, from the greatest
25      2, XVIII|         but less fit to point to action; for they carry a kind of
26      2, XVIII|        and the longitude towards action; that is, from the greatest
27      2, XX   |    really to instruct and suborn action and active life, these Georgics
28      2, XXI  |   agreeable to truth and apt for action; and far removed from that
29      2, XXII |          wherein both speech and action is often conversant; and
30      2, XXII |       lovers of quiet, lovers of action, lovers of victory, lovers
31      2, XXIII|         no greater impediment of action than an over-curious observance
32      2, XXIII|        it concerned a particular action then on foot, yet the substance
33      2, XXIII|        it, as a very pattern for action; whereas the examples alleged
34      2, XXIII|        not anything in being and action which should not be drawn
35      2, XXIII|          in every conference and action, as well to observe as to
36      2, XXIII|  philosopher in every particular action to say to himself, Et hoc
37      2, XXIII|        ought in every particular action so to carry the motions
38      2, XXIII|      account of himself of every action, to reap somewhat, and not
39      2, XXIII|        not intermingle matter of action with matter of general learning.~
40      2, XXIII|         no greater impediment of action than an over-curious observance
41      2, XXIII|        it concerned a particular action then on foot, yet the substance
42      2, XXIII|        it, as a very pattern for action; whereas the examples alleged
43      2, XXIII|        not anything in being and action which should not be drawn
44      2, XXIII|          in every conference and action, as well to observe as to
45      2, XXIII|  philosopher in every particular action to say to himself, Et hoc
46      2, XXIII|        ought in every particular action so to carry the motions
47      2, XXIII|      account of himself of every action, to reap somewhat, and not
48      2, XXIII|        not intermingle matter of action with matter of general learning.~