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1 Int | on the 22nd of January, 1561. His mother was the Lord 2 Int | father’s death, in February, 1579, before he had completed 3 Int | to the outer bar in June, 1582, and about that time, at 4 Int | of Time”).~In November, 1584, Bacon took his seat in 5 Int | Dorsetshire. In October, 1586, he sat for Taunton. He 6 Int | Queen of Scots. In October, 1589, he obtained the reversion 7 Int | Parliament that met in February, 1593, Bacon sat as member for 8 Int | hesitation, gave it, in November, 1595, to Serjeant Fleming. The 9 Int | Elizabeth on the 24th of March, 1603. Bacon was among the crowd 10 Int | King’s Counsel in August, 1604; but he was not appointed 11 Int | office he had to wait until 1608. It had not yet fallen to 12 Int | until November or December, 1612, seven years later than 13 Int | fifty-eight, appeared only in 1625; and Bacon died on the 9th 14 Int | died on the 9th of April, 1626. The edition of the Essays 15 Int | House, in the Strand, on the 22nd of January, 1561. His mother 16 Int | death of Elizabeth on the 24th of March, 1603. Bacon was 17 Int | called upon to speak. On the 25th of February, 1601, Essex 18 Int | Chamber, which was worth 1,600 pounds or 2,000 pounds a 19 1, V | speeding gold. Ovid. Metam, x. 667.~ Neither is my meaning, 20 Int | Bacon afterwards sold for 1,800 pounds—equal, say, to 12, 21 Int | 1625; and Bacon died on the 9th of April, 1626. The edition 22 1, VI | immediate working, and to abase all human wisdom or knowledge; 23 1, III | many not unlearned have abased and abused their wits and 24 1, II | the one was the first that abated the power of Sparta, and 25 1, VI | figured in the two persons of Abel and Cain, and in the two 26 1, III | truth which is said, that Abeunt studua in mores, studies 27 2, XVI | words written, in that they abide not; but they have evermore, 28 2, XX | God, as Moses did when he abode so long in the mount. And 29 2, XXV | into method of art; a thing abounding in sermons, which will vanish, 30 2, XXV | faith which was accounted to Abraham for righteousness was of 31 1, V | methodical compounder or abridger, and so the patrimony of 32 2, XXV | many things must be left abrupt, and concluded with this: 33 2, XXI | derisori scientiam ipsa se abscondit; sed studioso fit obviam. 34 2, XXV | and I may speak it with an absit invidia verbo, and nowise 35 2, XX | commended not them which abstained, but them which sustained, 36 2, XIV | incommodum, or pressing an absurdity; the number of middle terms 37 1, IV | sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety 38 1, VI | framed to uphold the same abuses; at one and the same time 39 2, XIII| philosophers became sceptics and academics, and denied any certainty 40 2, XIII| assuredly many scattered in both academies did hold it in subtlety 41 2, XIII| so much. And in the later academy, which Cicero embraced, 42 2, XIII| embraced, this opinion also of acatalepsia (I doubt) was not held sincerely; 43 2, II | anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit lumina Vesper,”~yet that 44 2, XVI | force only by contract or acceptation. Of the former sort are 45 1, V | being demonstrate, our mind accepteth of them by a kind of relation ( 46 1, IV | This facility of credit and accepting or admitting things weakly 47 1, III | power; and the second is accidental; the third only is proper 48 2, IX | patients, do ever consider accidentia animi, as of great force 49 2, VII | God, they are as the three acclamations, Sante, sancte, sancte! 50 2, XI | influxions; save that it is accompanied in this case with a fervency 51 2, XXI | there is one vice which accompanieth them that write in their 52 1, VI | wherein He did effect and accomplish them.~(6) After the creation 53 2, Int | beautify and adorn with accomplishments of magnificence and state, 54 1, VII | listening unto the airs and accords of the harp, the sound whereof 55 2, II | that application which he accoupleth it withal, annals and journals: 56 2, Int | than any enforcement or accumulation of endeavours. This I am 57 1, II | we see that Anytus, the accuser of Socrates, laid it as 58 1, II | strange thing if that which accustometh the mind to a perpetual 59 1, VIII| Subjecit pedibus, strepitumque Acherontis avari.”~(2) It were too 60 1, VII | Agesilaus the Spartan, and achieved by Alexander the Macedonian, 61 1, II | corrupting of manners, were after acknowledged for sovereign medicines 62 2, XIII| arte credendum. And Celsus acknowledgeth it gravely, speaking of 63 1, III | liquors and confections; acknowledging that, to an external report, 64 2, VI | to induce and enforce the acknowledgment of God, and to demonstrate 65 2, VII | and ends, and yet never acquaint them with his purpose, so 66 1, VIII| doubts and difficulties, and acquainting the mind to balance reasons 67 2, XXV | scelus idololatriae nolle acquiescere.~(25) These things I have 68 1, V | or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to her master’s 69 1, VI | all learning is knowledge acquired, and all knowledge in God 70 2, XXII| fuerit virtutem quidem nosse, acquirendae autem ejus modos et vias 71 2, XXV | the information, and the acquiring or obtaining the information. 72 2, XII | before the decree can be acted. For imagination ever precedeth 73 2, XX | tuum: nam inde procedunt actiones vitae. In the handling of 74 2, II | annalibus, talia diurnis urbis actis mandare. So as there is 75 2, Int | wherein I purpose to speak actively, without digressing or dilating.~ 76 2, IV | monarchs have suppressed actual and open rebels, then the 77 | actually 78 1, VII | Verba sapientum tanquam aculei, et tanquam clavi in altum 79 1, VII | Lastly, weigh that quick and acute reply which he made when 80 2, XX | Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who was the first contemplative 81 2, V | Si inoequalibus aequalia addas, omnia erunt inaequalia, 82 2, XXV | it any be, is due tanquam adeps sacrificii, to be incensed 83 2, VII | parts, in regard of their adjacence to foreign or unlike bodies;” 84 1, VII | there was not a greater admirer of learning or benefactor 85 1, IV | credit and accepting or admitting things weakly authorised 86 1, I | from knowledge, and that admonition of St. Paul, “That we be 87 1, VII | speak it than to do it— Adolescens, durius est mihi hoc dicere 88 2, XXII| beneficent, benignitas hujis ut adolescentuli est. Saint Paul concludeth 89 2, XIII| it holdeth ars inveniendi adolescit cum inventis; for as in 90 1, IV | when he saw the image of Adonis, Venus’ minion, in a temple, 91 1, VII | memory was a missive to his adopted son, Trajan, proceeding 92 2, II | beginneth with the mixed adoption of a crown by arms and title; 93 1, VII | first Divi fratres, the two adoptive brethren—Lucius Commodus 94 2, XXV | and witchcraft, when we adore false gods, knowing them 95 1, IV | oracle of God’s works, and adored the deceiving and deformed 96 1, III | not dispute his best with Adrianus Caesar, excusing himself, “ 97 Int | Of the proficience and aduancement of Learning, divine and 98 1, VII | famous libraries, a perpetual advancer of learned men to office, 99 1, VII | or singular favourers and advancers of learning, which age for 100 1, II | themselves; or because it advanceth any other their ends. So 101 2, XXI | continuing their form; another of advancing and perfecting their form; 102 1, II | whereupon they are confident and adventurous, but know neither the causes 103 2, XXII| mobiles, saepeque ipsae sibi advers. Tacitus observeth how rarely 104 1, II | answered by Demosthenes to his adversary AEschines, that was a man 105 2, XXII| privateness, prosperity, adversity, constant fortune, variable 106 2, XXII| magistro? Many other axioms and advices there are touching those 107 2, III | occasions, advertisements, advises, directions, propositions, 108 1, VIII| behind the curtain, and adviseth well of the motion. And 109 1, II | like error to rely upon advocates or lawyers which are only 110 2, XIV | stars, as if He had been an aedilis, one that should have set 111 2, XXII| dolores non sentiunt, iis mens aegrotat. They need medicine, not 112 1, VII | Lucius Commodus Verus, son to AElius Verus, who delighted much 113 2, XXV | Videmus nunc per speculum in aenigmate, tunc autem facie ad faciem; 114 2, V | the rule, Si inoequalibus aequalia addas, omnia erunt inaequalia, 115 1, VIII| mari magno, turbantibus aequora ventis, &c.”~“It is a view 116 2, XIII| which the poet speaketh of, Aerei mellis caelestia dona, distilling 117 1, VI | lapis solutus calore in aes vertitur; and so forwards 118 1, II | Demosthenes to his adversary AEschines, that was a man given to 119 2, XXI | when we see it is but magni aestimamus mori tardius, and ne glorieris 120 2, X | expressed:—~“Purumque reliquit~AEthereum sensum atque aurai simplicis 121 1, VIII| populos dat jura, viamque affectat Olympo.”~But yet the commandment 122 1, V | of these is the extreme affecting of two extremities: the 123 2, IX | how far the humours and affects of the body do alter or 124 1, Int | though I cannot positively or affirmatively advise your Majesty, or 125 1, I | inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied 126 2, II | ubi primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens 127 2, XXII| of fortune; Divitiae si affluant, nolite cor apponere. These 128 2, XXV | according to those maxims, that affordeth a long field of disputation. 129 2, VIII| production of the natures afore rehearsed, than that some 130 Int | Rawley, his chaplain in after-years, reports of him that “whilst 131 2, VIII| every woman mother, but afterward they come to distinguish 132 2, XXII| intention, but tanquam aliud agendo, because of the natural 133 2, XXV | true rule, Auctoris aliud agentis parva auctoritas. For it 134 2, XXII| decency; and strong and agile for all duties of life. 135 1, VII | hand, and then trust to the agility of their wit to ward or 136 1, VIII| For it was well noted long ago, that Homer hath given more 137 2, X | assuaging of the pains and agonies of death.~(5) In the consideration 138 2, XIV | term. The principles to be agreed by all and exempted from 139 2, IV | pleasure, joined also with the agreement and consort it hath with 140 1, VII | Christianity, and became, as Agrippa said unto St. Paul, “half 141 2, II | chronicle which was read before Ahasuerus, when he could not take 142 2, XXV | be confined with a a noli akryn sapere, sed time.~(17) But 143 1, IV | writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers of the Arabians, 144 2, Int | wherein I shall need some alchemist to help me, who call upon 145 2, II | will not be curiosus in aliena republica, I cannot fail 146 2, XXV | are which do make men mere aliens and disincorporate from 147 2, V | concord or sweet accord, alike true in affection? Is not 148 2, Int | general thanks, Difficile non aliquem, ingratum quenquam praeterire. 149 1, VII | yet it served the turn to allay the bitter hatred of those 150 2, XXII| those instances which he allegeth. But allowing his conclusion, 151 2, XXV | chiefly, and sometimes the allegorical or typical, are they whereof 152 2, XXV | I wish men to be bold in allegories, or indulgent or light in 153 1, I | then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily 154 1, III | government of youth is commonly allotted to them; which age, because 155 1, IV | Cicero and Demosthenes, and allure all young men that were 156 1, II | to flock about him, being allured with the sweetness and majesty 157 1, VII | it was a speech of great allurement toward his own purpose, 158 2, XXV | or indulgent or light in allusions: but that I do much condemn 159 | along 160 2, VII | qualities, which, like an alphabet, are not many, and of which 161 2, VI | coelicolas, omnes supera alta tenetes; we may return to 162 2, X | cannot be removed by medicine alterative, but must be accommodated 163 2, IX | imagination, how and how far it altereth the body proper of the imaginant; 164 1, III | man, Satis magnum alter alteri theatrum sumus. Nevertheless 165 2, IV | and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth 166 2, XXII| Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: by aspiring to be like 167 2, XXV | and concluded with this: O altitudo sapientiae et scientiae 168 2, XXII| Dei: sed hic quidem status altius quiddam virtute est, ille 169 1, VII | aculei, et tanquam clavi in altum defixi: whereof I will only 170 2, XXII| quiddam virtute est, ille aluid quiddam a vitio. And therefore 171 1, V | remembered, fidelia vulnera amantis, sed dolosa oscula malignantis. 172 Int | sixteen to Paris with the ambassador Sir Amyas Paulet, to begin 173 2, XIV | but wise cautions against ambiguities of speech. So, again, the 174 2, XIV | sophisms being equivocation or ambiguity of words and phrase, specially 175 2, V | nature which are almost ambiguous to which kind they should 176 1, VIII| voluptuous men turn friars, and ambitions princes turn melancholy. 177 1, II | or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that 178 2, I | Saint Augustine’s nor Saint Ambrose’s works that will make so 179 1, V | sit via recta et bona et ambulate in ea. Antiquity deserveth 180 1, VIII| colour them, but not much to amend them; like an ill mower, 181 1, VI | Christian Church, which, amidst the inundations of the Scythians 182 2, IX | for as all leagues and amities consist of mutual intelligence 183 2, Int | works are over common by amplitude of reward, by soundness 184 Int | with the ambassador Sir Amyas Paulet, to begin his training 185 2, XX | revived in the heresy of the Anabaptists, measuring things according 186 2, XXV | bounds of sobriety—the one anagogical, and the other philosophical. 187 1, VII | work of his entitled De Analogia, being a grammatical philosophy, 188 2, XIV | which is comprehended in the Analytics.~(5) The second method of 189 2, XXV | denunciation of curses and anathemas, to the terror of those 190 2, XX | God have wished themselves anathematised and razed out of the book 191 2, X | though the inhumanity of anatomia vivorum was by Celsus justly 192 2, VII | only by Plato, who ever anchoreth upon that shore, but by 193 2, XXII| or love, neither man nor angel ever transgressed, or shall 194 2, XXI | assumption to divine or angelical nature is the perfection 195 2, V | several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point, 196 2, XX | vincere magnum Quam sit, et angustis his addere rebus honorem.”~ 197 2, II | primus equis Oriens afflavit anhelis, Illic sera rubens accendit 198 1, IV | this time to make any exact animadversion of the errors and impediments 199 2, IX | understanding in the brain, animosity (which he did unfitly call 200 2, II | repertum sit, res illustres annalibus, talia diurnis urbis actis 201 2, II | he accoupleth it withal, annals and journals: appropriating 202 1, VI | unseen. Matter of generation: Annon sicut lac mulsisti me, et 203 1, IV | the scoffing echo, Decem annos consuumpsi in legendo Cicerone; 204 2, VIII| ambages of diets, bathings, anointings, medicines, motions, and 205 2, Int | in communalties, and the anointment of God superinduceth a brotherhood 206 2, XIII| her hive? Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn 207 1, VIII| seem much other than an ant-hill, whereas some ants carry 208 2, XX | whereof Solomon saith, Ante omnia, fili, custodi cor 209 2, Int | direction, for claudus in via antevertit cursorem extra viam; and 210 2, XIV | better than the heresy of the Anthropomorphites, bred in the cells of gross 211 1, VII | likewise in that book of his, Anti-Cato, it may easily appear that 212 2, XIII| therefore, the larger your anticipation is, the more direct and 213 2, VIII| observations of sympathies and antipathies, and hidden proprieties, 214 2, II | of rest given to AENeas, antiquam exquirite matrem, should 215 2, X | for you shall have of them antiquaries, poets, humanists, statesmen, 216 1, II | Titus Livius; the best antiquary, Marcus Varro; and the best 217 1, V | matter, State super vias antiquas, et videte quaenam sit via 218 1, III | outside had apes and owls and antiques, but contained within sovereign 219 2, VIII| painfully and understandingly de antiquis philosophiis, out of all 220 1, V | progression. And to speak truly, Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi. 221 2, XVI | well said, “Quod tempore antiquum videtur, id incongruitate 222 2, IX | hath the same relation or antistrophe that the former hath. For 223 2, XIII| Deum monstra, et latrator Anubis, Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, 224 1, II | So likewise we see that Anytus, the accuser of Socrates, 225 1, II | Atticus, and he will fly apace from being irresolute. Let 226 1, III | which on the outside had apes and owls and antiques, but 227 2, Int | bees:—~“Principio sedes apibus statioque petenda, Quo neque 228 1, VII | his gallery matched with Apollonius (with whom in his vain imagination 229 Int | writing “Sir Francis Bacon his Apologie in certain Imputations concerning 230 1, VII | of his own to be made an apophthegm or an oracle, as vain princes, 231 1, III | compared to the gallipots of apothecaries, which on the outside had 232 1, VII | which the Grecians call apotheosis, and the Latins relatio 233 2, VIII| conceit, and are nevertheless apparently detected and convicted of 234 1, III | that visions are nearer apparitions of God than dreams? And 235 1, VII | that could with one word appease a mutiny in his army, which 236 1, VI | aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit terram super nihilum; wherein 237 2, XXI | this same, Non uti ut non appetas, non appetere ut non metuas, 238 2, XXI | uti ut non appetas, non appetere ut non metuas, sunt animi 239 2, II | Polybius, Sallustius, Caesar, Appianus, Tacitus, Herodianus in 240 2, XXV | To this it ought to be applauded, Nec vox hominem sonat: 241 2, XXII| si affluant, nolite cor apponere. These observations and 242 1, Int | nevertheless to touch and apprehend the least; whereas it should 243 1, VII | and entire. He likewise approached a degree nearer unto Christianity, 244 1, VIII| interpreted, is that which approacheth nearest to the similitude 245 2, XIII| these places serve only to apprompt our invention, but also 246 2, II | withal, annals and journals: appropriating to the former matters of 247 2, Int | like, have been provided as appurtenances to astronomy and cosmography, 248 Int | Bacon died on the 9th of April, 1626. The edition of the 249 2, IV | division of poesy which is aptest in the propriety thereof ( 250 2, VII | other creatures, Producant aquae, producat terra), the forms 251 2, X | Hinc Stygias ebrius hausit aquas; he was not sober enough 252 1, VI | the world, Qui extendit aquilonem super vacuum, et appendit 253 1, IV | Albertus, and divers of the Arabians, being fraught with much 254 2, VII | with antiquity usque ad aras; and, therefore, to retain 255 1, VII | came to him in the plain of Arbela and showed him the innumerable 256 1, VI | dignity of knowledge in the archetype or first platform, which 257 1, IV | Hippocrates, Euclides, Archimedes, of most vigour at the first, 258 2, V | correspondence of the principles and architectures of nature to the rules and 259 2, VII | elegantly describeth: non arctabuntur gressus tui, et currens 260 1, VI | stellas Pleiadas, aut gyrum Arcturi poteris dissipare? Where 261 1, VI | another place, Qui facit Arcturum, et Oriona, et Hyadas, et 262 1, VII | point in hand—Neque semper arcum tendit Apollo—and to name 263 2, VIII| that knoweth the nature of arefaction, the nature of assimilation 264 1, VI | Matter of minerals: Habet argentum venarum suarum principia; 265 1, II | every man is more ready to argue than to obey and execute. 266 1, VII | learning needeth not to be argued from his education, or his 267 2, XXV | he saith, Quasi peccatum ariolandi est repugnare, et quasi 268 1, III | want of exact application ariseth from two causes—the one, 269 2, VIII| these are two, geometry and arithmetic, the one handling quantity 270 2, V | distributive justice, and arithmetical and geometrical proportion? 271 2, VII | firmness of hides is for the armour of the body against extremities 272 2, VII | specious causes, to the great arrest and prejudice of further 273 1, III | was said by Themistocles, arrogantly and uncivilly being applied 274 1, VII | the younger against King Artaxerxes. This Xenophon at that time 275 2, XIII| rei deditus et naturam et artem saepe vincit. And therefore 276 2, VIII| require as the story of King Arthur of Britain, or Hugh of Bourdeaux, 277 2, X | to the appearances, and artificially with a reference to the 278 2, X | repertorem medicinae talis et artis~Fulmine Phoebigenam Stygias 279 2, XIII| sciences, which maketh the artsman differ from the inexpert, 280 2, XXII| angels transgressed and fell; Ascendam, et ero similis altissimo: 281 2, VII | double scale or ladder, ascendent and descendent, ascending 282 1, IV | did Car of Cambridge and Ascham with their lectures and 283 1, IV | answered in Greek, One, Asine. Then grew the learning 284 2, XI | predictions, as of conjunctions, aspects, eclipses, and the like. 285 2, XXI | theomachy), pretendeth and aspireth to active good, though it 286 1, VII | thereupon advised him to assail them by night; whereupon 287 1, VII | where all beasts and birds assembled, and, forgetting their several 288 2, XIII| satisfactory reason, Quae assensum parit operis effaeta est; 289 1, V | sincerely with more or less asseveration, as they stand in a man’ 290 2, XIV | knowledge. The distributions and assignations of demonstrations according 291 1, IV | nominis scientiae. For he assigneth two marks and badges of 292 2, VIII| arefaction, the nature of assimilation of nourishment to the thing 293 2, XIII| the sense, and other like assistance. But they ought to have 294 2, XXI | were fit to be made their associates, and cast forth the question 295 2, XXII| need medicine, not only to assuage the disease, but to awake 296 2, X | for the facilitating and assuaging of the pains and agonies 297 2, X | avenues of nature, they may assume as much as the poet saith:—~“ 298 2, XXI | origo.”~His approach or assumption to divine or angelical nature 299 2, XV | studying, as that which assureth copy of invention, and contracteth 300 1, VII | the king’s forces, to the astonishment of the world, and the encouragement 301 2, Int | we see spheres, globes, astrolabes, maps, and the like, have 302 2, XI | particular knowledges. The astronomer hath his predictions, as 303 1, V | golden ball thrown before Atalanta, which, while she goeth 304 2, VI | wrought by God to convert an atheist, because the light of nature 305 Int | and his brother Antony had attached themselves to the young 306 Int | he twice obtruded violent attacks upon Essex when he was not 307 2, XVI | for the speedy and perfect attaining languages, as well for intercourse 308 2, XXI | reintegrations, approaches and attainings to their ends. So as it 309 2, XXV | four things which no man attains to know; which are— the 310 2, XXII| of their affections, nor attempered with time and experience”? 311 2, X | the skill, and to give the attendances, for the facilitating and 312 2, XIII| human, they reputed the attending the inductions (whereof 313 2, II | hath some good pen which attends it. And because it is an 314 1, III | in them.~(5) But upon an attentive and indifferent review, 315 2, XIII| nature. For he that shall attentively observe how the mind doth 316 Int | and patron. The office of Attorney-General became vacant. Essex asked 317 2, XXII| honour Plinius Secundus attributeth to Trajan in his funeral 318 1, VII | heroical and divine: in the attribution and distribution of which 319 2, XXI | But the reply is good: Auctorem praesentis justitiae habes, 320 2, XXV | And it is a true rule, Auctoris aliud agentis parva auctoritas. 321 2, XXV | Auctoris aliud agentis parva auctoritas. For it were a strange conclusion, 322 1, VII | and tumult make them not audible, all things dissolve into 323 2, XX | teacher; being directed to the auditor’s benefit, and not to the 324 2, V | eis quicquam addere nec auferre. Is not the ground, which 325 1, V | sometimes improved, but seldom augmented.~(11) But the greatest error 326 Int | office of King’s Counsel in August, 1604; but he was not appointed 327 2, I | learning. For it is not Saint Augustine’s nor Saint Ambrose’s works 328 1, Int | saith of Augustus Caesar: Augusto profluens, et quae principem 329 1, VII | Divine Presence, coming in aura leni, without noise or agitation.~( 330 2, X | reliquit~AEthereum sensum atque aurai simplicis ignem.”~So that 331 1, VII | Martial his Virgil; and Marcus Aurelius Antoninus: whereof the latter, 332 1, IV | referring themselves to auricular traditions and such other 333 1, VI | venarum suarum principia; et auro locus est in quo conflatur, 334 1, V | hindered,~“Declinat cursus, aurumque volubile tollit.” ~~~~~~Stoops 335 1, VI | et Hyadas, et interiora Austri; where again he takes knowledge 336 1, V | this, Nil aliud quam bene ausus vana contemnere. And the 337 2, XX | summer nor winter, spring nor autumn, but all after one air and 338 2, VIII| quantity determined, as it is auxiliary and incident unto them. 339 1, VIII| strepitumque Acherontis avari.”~(2) It were too long to 340 1, III | fuit; nec in quam tam sero avaritia luxuriaque immigraverint; 341 2, X | the true approaches and avenues of nature, they may assume 342 2, XX | from civil business, for avoiding of indignities and perturbations; 343 1, VII | king’s high countries, from Babylon to Graecia in safety, in 344 1, VII | themselves, as was Ceres, Bacchus, Mercurius, Apollo, and 345 1, V | retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.~(2) Another 346 1, VI | prefiguration of Christ, the badge or difference of the people 347 2, XV | of tumblers, funambuloes, baladines; the one being the same 348 2, Int | Caesar’s letter to Oppius and Balbes, Hoc quemadmodum fieri possit, 349 1, V | knowledge, like unto the golden ball thrown before Atalanta, 350 2, II | of them deserveth to be banished, as all men of sound judgment 351 2, II | of Lathe; and about the bank there were many birds flying 352 1, VII | they were all invited to a banquet of the gods, and Silenus 353 Int | was admitted to the outer bar in June, 1582, and about 354 1, IV | monstrous altercations and barking questions. So as it is not 355 2, XX | both this and many other barks of knowledge have been cast 356 1, VIII| cock, that preferred the barleycorn before the gem; or of Midas, 357 2, I | needles of iron, not in bars of iron.~(6) But if my judgment 358 1, III | and pens, turning (as Du Bartas saith) Hecuba into Helena, 359 2, Int | designation of writers), are opera basilica; towards which the endeavours 360 2, VIII| shall by ambages of diets, bathings, anointings, medicines, 361 2, X | imitation by art of natural baths and medicinable fountains: 362 2, II | arms and title; an entry by battle, an establishment by marriage; 363 2, II | and carry them in their beak a little while, and then 364 2, XX | which they term felicity, beatitude, or the highest good, the 365 2, XXI | food. In divine doctrine, beatius est dare quam accipere. 366 2, Int | have accustomed likewise to beautify and adorn with accomplishments 367 2, Int | whose youthful and fruitful bed doth yet promise many the 368 2, XIII| come to it? Who taught the bee to sail through such a vast 369 2, X | higher occasion, “If it befall to me as befalleth to the 370 2, X | If it befall to me as befalleth to the fools, why should 371 1, V | use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge 372 2, VIII| inquiry of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange 373 2, XXII| confined almost to boys and beginners? But is it not true also, 374 2, II | hath been known. For it beginneth with the mixed adoption 375 2, XXII| time; others to that which begins afar off, and is to be won 376 Int | February, 1601, Essex was beheaded. The genius of Bacon was 377 2, XXI | simplicity of manners, and believing of preachers, schoolmasters, 378 2, XXI | baseness and going upon his belly, his volubility and lubricity, 379 2, VIII| mathematics are those sciences belonging which handle quantity determinate, 380 2, XXII| making a wand straight by bending him contrary to his natural 381 2, XI | heaven and earth by the benediction of a producat, but was immediately 382 2, XVI | reintegrate himself in those benedictions, from which by his fault 383 2, XXII| Diligite inimicos vestros, benefacite eis qui oderunt vos, et 384 1, VII | greater admirer of learning or benefactor of learning, a founder of 385 2, XXII| wonder to see an old man beneficent, benignitas hujis ut adolescentuli 386 1, VII | other is, indeed, like the benefits of heaven, which are permanent 387 2, XXII| see an old man beneficent, benignitas hujis ut adolescentuli est. 388 2, XXII| good nature or ill nature, benignity or malignity; and, therefore, 389 2, VI | common parent like unto Berecynthia, which had so much heavenly 390 2, XIII| but only work as he is bespoken, he should be weakly customed. 391 2, XXII| Cretensus semper mendaces, malae bestiae, ventres. Sallust noteth 392 1, VII | nether end of the table and bestowed a scoff on everyone as they 393 2, XVI | a tyranny newly usurped, bid the messenger attend and 394 2, XIX | for example, if a child be bird-witted, that is, hath not the faculty 395 2, XIII| hive? Who taught the ant to bite every grain of corn that 396 2, X | sober enough to taste any bitterness of the Stygian water. But 397 1, VII | ancient habit of Macedon, of black. “True,” saith Alexander; “ 398 2, XIX | to practise swimming with bladders, and another to practise 399 2, X | therefore I cannot much blame physicians that they use 400 2, XIX | wherein it is over usual to blanch the obscure places and discourse 401 2, II | cannot but meet with many blanks and spaces, which he must 402 1, II | was well punished for his blasphemy against learning, in the 403 1, Int | readiness to take flame and blaze from the least occasion 404 1, VII | and poesy, when, upon the bleeding of his wounds, he called 405 1, IV | primitive Church used to blemish and taint the Christians 406 2, Int | unmarried life, and was a blessing to her own times; and yet 407 2, III | chastisements, deliverances, and blessings; and this is a work which 408 2, XXI | felicity was the felicity of a block or stone; and Socrates saying 409 1, II | Tyrants, the most base, bloody, and envious persons that 410 1, I | so he saith, “Knowledge bloweth up, but charity buildeth 411 1, V | that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth 412 2, XXII| are not settled from the boiling heat of their affections, 413 1, V | and vanity only, or as a bond-woman, to acquire and gain to 414 2, XII | which the lord hath over a bondman; but that reason hath over 415 2, XIII| not be enchained in those bonds. For arguments consist of 416 2, VII | heat or cold;” or that “the bones are for the columns or beams, 417 1, III | major, nec sanctior, nec bonis exemplis ditior fuit; nec 418 1, VIII| certain it is that Veritas and Bonitas differ but as the seal and 419 2, XXII| solem suum oriri facit super bonos et malos, et pluit super 420 2, XXII| Eritis sicut Dii, scientes bonum et malum: but by aspiring 421 Int | INTRODUCTION.~“The TVVOO Bookes of Francis Bacon. Of the 422 2, VII | keeping their precincts and borders, men are extremely deceived 423 2, VIII| or no. And as Alexander Borgia was wont to say of the expedition 424 1, III | poverty of friars had not borne out the scandal of the superfluities 425 2, XXV | ornament or illustration sake, borrowed from nature or history according 426 2, II | that which Cicero saith, borrowing it from Demosthenes, that 427 1, VI | preserve in the sacred lap and bosom thereof the precious relics 428 2, XXV | whom on earth I am most bounden.~ ~ 429 2, VIII| Arthur of Britain, or Hugh of Bourdeaux, differs from Caesar’s Commentaries 430 2, XIX | instructions, &c. But in his boxes or particular cabinet he 431 2, XXII| but confined almost to boys and beginners? But is it 432 2, IX | the understanding in the brain, animosity (which he did 433 1, IV | reflected. This vice therefore brancheth itself into two sorts; delight 434 1, II | though it pleased him to brave the world in taking to the 435 2, XXII| the more vaporous, and the braver gate (“of ivory”) sendeth 436 2, XXV | exhibiting whole of the bread of life. But that which 437 2, XXI | show of many changes, yet breaketh not the hand to such strange 438 1, VI | also of all things that breathe or move. Nay, the same Solomon 439 2, VII | remedy the complaint of vita brevis, ars longa; which is performed 440 1, VII | streams, and for making bridges and passages, and for policing 441 2, XXII| for the suppressing and bridling the rest. For as in the 442 2, Int | discovering, since we have so bright and benign a star as your 443 2, XIX | The other, because the bringing in of the deficiences did 444 2, XXV | your Majesty’s Island of Brittany by the space of these forty 445 2, XVI | reason is handled sparsim, brokenly though not entirely; and, 446 2, Int | arts mechanical contract brotherhoods in communalties, and the 447 1, VI | creature, nor sweat of the brow, man’s employment must of 448 2, V | will now and then draw a bucket of water out of this well 449 2, XXV | is drawn and received in buckets and vessels immediately 450 2, IV | mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the 451 2, X | personally: nay, you shall have a buffon or pantomimus will express 452 1, I | bloweth up, but charity buildeth up;” not unlike unto that 453 2, VIII| gathered into titles and bundles and not in order of time, 454 2, XV | managed) it is barren, not burdensome, nor dangerous to natural 455 2, XIX | mortalest enemies do not deny burial. When I have performed my 456 1, IV | had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; 457 2, XIII| every grain of corn that she burieth in her hill, lest it should 458 Int | William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh. Sir Nicholas Bacon had 459 2, XIX | legions, may have leave to bury us.” With which speech he 460 1, III | insons; and in precept, “Buy the truth, and sell it not; 461 Int | 12,000 pounds in present buying power. In 1597 Bacon was 462 2, XXV | imitation of the rabbins and cabalists, are to be confined with 463 2, V | slide from the close or cadence, common with the trope of 464 2, XIII| speaketh of, Aerei mellis caelestia dona, distilling and contriving 465 2, XXI | Igneus est ollis vigor, et caelestis origo.”~His approach or 466 1, VI | astronomy: Spiritus ejus ornavit caelos, et obstetricante manu ejus 467 2, II | but likewise imitabile caelum; in respect of the many 468 1, VII | emperor, in his book entitled Caersares, being as a pasquil or satire 469 1, II | the time of the two first Caesars, which had the art of government 470 1, III | saith in his introduction: Caeterum aut me amor negotii suscepti 471 1, VI | two persons of Abel and Cain, and in the two simplest 472 2, VIII| the earth to move, and the calculations are indifferently agreeable 473 2, VIII| doubtful. Therefore these calendars of doubts I commend as excellent 474 2, XXII| the sea would of itself be calm and quiet, if the winds 475 1, VII | and yet not through the calmness of the season, but through 476 1, VI | tollitur, et lapis solutus calore in aes vertitur; and so 477 2, XXII| orate pro persequentibus et calumniantibus vos, ut sitis filii Patris 478 1, II | assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all shadow of truth. 479 2, XIII| Puberibus caulem foliis et flore camantem Purpureo; non illa feris 480 1, VII | persons, that followed him in camp, throughout his journeys 481 2, XXII| datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti perfecta nitens elephanto, 482 1, IV | the upper parts; but then Candida succinctam latrantibus inguina 483 1, IV | great light, or branching candlestick of lights, than to go about 484 2, VIII| contend. If it be truth,~“Non canimus surdis, respondent omnia 485 2, III | write it in such text and capital letters, that, as the prophet 486 2, XIII| non illa feris incognita capris Gramina, cum tergo volucres 487 2, XIV | degenerate and corrupt use is for caption and contradiction, which 488 1, IV | resignation or perpetual captivity; and therefore, to conclude 489 2, II | antiquity is like fame, caput inter nubila condit, her 490 1, IV | and the like. Then did Car of Cambridge and Ascham 491 1, VII | dishonoured in Commodus, Caracalla, and Heliogabalus, who all 492 1, IV | the writings of Plinius, Cardanus, Albertus, and divers of 493 2, XXII| the natures of the several cardinals handsomely and lively painted 494 2, II | mediocrity, leaving the care of foreign stories to foreign 495 2, X | several experiences, and carefully set down both historically 496 1, I | desires, there groweth that carefulness and trouble of mind which 497 2, Int | of life, and discharge of cares and troubles; much like 498 1, III | and their fortunes, never caring in all tempests what becomes 499 1, II | indeed that ever lived, when Carneades the philosopher came in 500 2, XII | fain have returned ad ollas carnium, and were weary of manna;