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501 2, X | preternatural substances, as stones, carnosities, excrescences, worms, and 502 1, VII | countenance, not knowing where to carp at him, save at the last 503 2, XIII| Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem 504 1, VI | lac mulsisti me, et sicut caseum coagulasti me? &c. Matter 505 2, XX | finished in itself, without casting beams upon society, assuredly 506 1, VIII| infinite palaces, temples, castles, cities, have been decayed 507 1, II | and your Majesty, being as Castor and Pollux, lucida sidera, 508 2, II | remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of 509 1, III | frailty of their persons, the casualty of their fortunes, and the 510 2, XX | as that everything should catch in it and endanger it.~ 511 2, XIV | certain tribes, which we call categories or predicaments, are but 512 2, XXII| saith of Cato, In Marco Catone haec bona quae videmus divina 513 2, XIII| carpit ab Ida, Puberibus caulem foliis et flore camantem 514 1, VIII| potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, et 515 2, VIII| things, as that that is causative in Nature of a number of 516 2, XXV | out of Solomon that “The causeless curse shall not come.”~( 517 2, XXI | opposite, touching the frauds, cautels, impostures, and vices of 518 2, XXI | philosophers are more fearful and cautious than the nature of things 519 1, III | And yet hereof they have caveats enough in their own walks. 520 2, XV | contradicting of everything by cavil, or the like (whereof in 521 1, IV | solutions of every scruple, cavillation, and objection; breeding 522 2, XIII| notwithstanding all their cavillations) are very sufficient to 523 2, X | necessary to observe, what cavities, nests, and receptacles 524 1, VII | good opinion, and not only ceasing persecution, but giving 525 Int | other married Sir William Cecil, afterwards Lord Burleigh. 526 1, VI | of all verdure, from the cedar upon the mountain to the 527 1, V | since their rites were duly celebrated), but my intent is, without 528 1, VIII| desire of memory, fame, and celebration; and in effect the strength 529 2, XXII| therefore we may see what celsitude of honour Plinius Secundus 530 2, III | am not now in hand with censures, but with omissions.~(2) 531 2, VIII| which mixture were begotten centaurs and chimeras. So whosoever 532 2, VII | hic durescit, et haec ut cera liquescit, Uno eodemque 533 1, VII | gods themselves, as was Ceres, Bacchus, Mercurius, Apollo, 534 2, XIII| are very sufficient to certify and report truth, though 535 2, XXV | not divided. We see the chaff may and ought to be severed 536 2, XI | bees; and such as was the Chaldean astrology, and the like. 537 1, II | renowned, attributing and challenging the one to the Romans, and 538 Int | the Council in the Star Chamber, which was worth 1,600 pounds 539 2, VIII| of generalities, as in a champaign region, and not in the inclosures 540 2, X | adding and taking out and changing quid pro qua in their receipts, 541 1, VI | and disposition of that chaos or mass was the work of 542 1, IV | and their relics, shrines, chapels and images: which though 543 Int | year; and Dr. Rawley, his chaplain in after-years, reports 544 1, VI | and so forwards in that chapter.~(11) So likewise in the 545 1, II | laid it as an article of charge and accusation against him, 546 2, XI | ceremonies, characters, and charms do work, not by any tacit 547 2, XIII| because we do account it a chase as well of deer in an enclosed 548 2, XXV | dilated into commonplaces, not chasing after controversies, not 549 2, III | examples of God’s judgments, chastisements, deliverances, and blessings; 550 2, XX | and some came to make good cheer and meet their friends, 551 1, Int | the other upon a devout cheerfulness: in like manner there belongeth 552 1, VI | light, which are termed cherubim; and the third, and so following 553 2, XXV | familiarly in games of wit, as chess, or the like. The draughts 554 2, XIV | which respectively they have chiefest use; and certain others, 555 2, VIII| were begotten centaurs and chimeras. So whosoever shall entertain 556 2, XVI | further, that it is the use of China and the kingdoms of the 557 2, IV | Achilles was brought up under Chiron, the centaur, who was part 558 1, IV | than matter—more after the choiceness of the phrase, and the round 559 1, VII | approached a degree nearer unto Christianity, and became, as Agrippa 560 2, II | day by day. For we see the chronicle which was read before Ahasuerus, 561 2, IV | was an ancient vanity in Chrysippus, that troubled himself with 562 1, II | whereas ignorance makes them churlish, thwart, and mutinous: and 563 2, XXI | Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, somnus, ludus per hunc 564 1, IV | annos consuumpsi in legendo Cicerone; and the echo answered in 565 2, XVI | whatsoever. This art of ciphering hath for relative an art 566 2, X | they made AEsculapius and Circe, brother and sister, both 567 2, XIV | celestial bodies to perfect circles, rejecting spiral lines, 568 1, IV | own sense, and to avoid circuit of speech, without regard 569 2, XXI | somnus, ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non 570 2, V | penetrate unto God, or are circumferred to nature, or are reflected 571 1, I | knowledge is confined and circumscribed, and yet without any such 572 2, Int | framed springheads, conduits, cisterns, and pools, which men have 573 2, XII | magistrate hath over a free citizen,” who may come also to rule 574 2, XI | predictions; O urbem venalem, et cito perituram, si emptorem invenerit! 575 1, III | learning had not kept up civility and honour of life; but 576 2, IX | control the courage, to clarify the wits, to corroborate 577 2, VIII| Tacitus the actions of Nero or Claudius, with circumstances of times, 578 2, Int | these is direction, for claudus in via antevertit cursorem 579 1, VII | tanquam aculei, et tanquam clavi in altum defixi: whereof 580 2, VII | induration, but respective to clay; fire is the cause of colliquation, 581 2, X | and parts effeminate: for cleanness of body was ever esteemed 582 2, X | therefore the poets were clear-sighted in discerning this extreme 583 2, VIII| some one point hath seen clearer than his fellows, therefore 584 2, XX | things according to the clearness of the desires, or the reluctation; 585 1, III | themselves, which commonly cleaveth fastest: it is either from 586 1, VII | greatest terror and greatest clemency that could proceed out of 587 1, II | look into the errors of Clement VII., so lively described 588 Int | reversion of the office of Clerk of the Council in the Star 589 2, VII | elevation situate as upon a cliff, did descry that forms were 590 1, VI | southern stars were in that climate unseen. Matter of generation: 591 2, II | mathematics, in respect of the climates and configurations towards 592 1, IV | hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity 593 1, III | heart that is double and cloven, and not entire and ingenuous; 594 2, VII | number, and the degrees and co-ordinations whereof make all this variety. 595 1, III | to ride with her in her coach, and would needs have him 596 1, VI | mulsisti me, et sicut caseum coagulasti me? &c. Matter of minerals: 597 1, I | any such contracting or coarctation, but that it may comprehend 598 2, VIII| practice. But these are but coastings along the shore, premendo 599 2, XXV | with us.” So we see the coat of our Saviour was entire 600 2, XXII| virtue in their parasites’ coats fit to be scorned and derided), 601 1, IV | and brings forth indeed cobwebs of learning, admirable for 602 2, XVI | convivis quam placuisse cocis.”~And of the servile expressing 603 1, VIII| judgment, either of AEsop’s cock, that preferred the barleycorn 604 1, III | may save themselves in the cockboat of their own fortune; whereas 605 2, VI | much heavenly issue, omnes coelicolas, omnes supera alta tenetes; 606 2, XXII| filii Patris vestri qui in coelis est, qui solem suum oriri 607 2, XXII| elephanto, Sed falsa ad coelum mittunt insomnia manes:”~ 608 2, XVI | better judge than the art:—~“Coenae fercula nostrae~Mallem convivis 609 2, IV | Extremam, ut perhibent, Coeo Enceladoque soroem, Progenuit.”~ 610 2, II | are ordained by God to be coevals, that is, to meet in one 611 2, XXI | have no great latitude. Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; cibus, 612 2, Int | de iis rebus rgo vos ut cogitationem suscipiatis.~13. Another 613 1, VIII| Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas, Quique metus omnes, 614 2, XXV | begin, because it hath most coherence with that which we have 615 1, IV | form; taking liberty to coin and frame new terms of art 616 2, XXI | of invention, nor in the coldness of negligence; not sick 617 2, VIII| mathematics that use which is collateral and intervenient is no less 618 2, XXII| they are considered but collaterally and in a second degree ( 619 1, VII | latter, who obscured his colleague and survived him long, was 620 2, XXII| that my labour is but to collect into an art or science that 621 2, XIII| and upon the manner of collecting and concluding upon the 622 2, XXV | themselves, not only totally or collectively, but distributively in clauses 623 2, Int | because there is no education collegiate which is free, where such 624 2, XV | for the disposition and collocation of that knowledge which 625 2, X | substances, figures, and collocations; but they inquire not of 626 1, VI | obstetricante manu ejus eductus est Coluber tortuoses. And in another 627 2, XXI | serpentine wisdom with the columbine innocency, except men know 628 1, V | And the same happened to Columbus in the western navigation. 629 2, XIX | into an extreme tumult and combustion. For there arising a mutiny 630 2, XI | unto man, In sudore vultus comedes panem tuum. For they propound 631 2, XX | virtue (as it is used in some comedies of errors, wherein the mistress 632 1, IV | which was transformed into a comely virgin for the upper parts; 633 2, XII | seemed less nutritive and comfortable. So generally men taste 634 2, Int | humanity—Nam qui erranti comiter monstrat viam, &c. I do 635 2, II | sovereign princes or absolute commanders, and that states are most 636 1, VII | princes we will make some commemoration; wherein, although the matter 637 2, Int | conversant. As for any particular commemorations, I call to mind what Cicero 638 2, III | propositions, petitions, commendatory, expostulatory, satisfactory, 639 2, VII | respect, which valueth and commendeth this part of metaphysic, 640 1, V | profound interpreter or commentor, to be a sharp champion 641 2, XVI | therefore, we see in the commerce of barbarous people that 642 2, XX | Pompeius Magnus, when being in commission of purveyance for a famine 643 2, Int | physic have annexed the commodity of gardens for simples of 644 2, XV | prejudice imputed to the use of common-place books, as causing a retardation 645 1, VII | for policing of cities and commonalties with new ordinances and 646 1, III | it were good to leave the commonplace in commendation of povery 647 2, I | inquireth the nature of a commonwealth, first in a family, and 648 Int | him that “whilst he was commorant in the University, about 649 2, Int | contract brotherhoods in communalties, and the anointment of God 650 2, IX | unto all this knowledge de communi vinculo, of the concordances 651 2, VII | another, than if He had communicated to particular creatures 652 2, XX | exalt the good which is communicative, and depress the good which 653 2, XX | and infinite feeling of communion.~(8) This being set down 654 2, XIV | together with the making of man communis mensura, have brought into 655 2, V | true coincidence between commutative and distributive justice, 656 2, XXV | stand by architecture and compaction, which are more subject 657 2, XXI | gratitude, the civil bond of companies, colleges, and politic bodies, 658 1, VIII| right reason there be any comparable with that wherewith knowledge 659 2, XXI | also, not simply alone, but comparatively; whereunto belongeth the 660 2, XXII| popular estates were wont to compare the people to the sea, and 661 2, Int | almost impossibility to be compassed and effected. But for the 662 2, XXI | clearing perturbations then in compassing desires. The sophist’s opinion 663 2, VII | imitateth that dexterously and compendiously, which nature worketh by 664 2, Int | answerable to that mediocrity or competency of advancement, which may 665 2, XXV | jurisconsults, of which Tribonian compiled the digest. So as this course 666 2, II | reported as they pass, the compiling of a complete history of 667 1, VII | have come from so far to complain except they had just cause 668 2, IX | see Cicero, the orator, complained of Socrates and his school, 669 Int | February, 1579, before he had completed the provision he was making 670 2, XXV | And as for perfection or completeness in divinity, it is not to 671 Int | late Earle of Essex and his Complices.” But James of Scotland, 672 2, III | expostulatory, satisfactory, of compliment, of pleasure, of discourse, 673 2, XXII| instant doth settle and compose it: so in all other excellences, 674 2, X | if it may be reduced to compositions of art, both the variety 675 2, XXII| rem ipsam nosse, et ejus compotes fieri: hoc autem ex voto 676 1, V | defender, to be a methodical compounder or abridger, and so the 677 1, VII | until the reign of Commodus; comprehending a succession of six princes, 678 2, XIII| certainty of knowledge or comprehension; and held opinion that the 679 2, VII | giants’ hills:—~“Ter sunt conati imponere Pelio Ossam, Scilicet 680 1, I | again, it obscureth and concealeth the stars and celestial 681 2, XXV | usual, by pretext of true conceiving that which is revealed, 682 2, VII | uniting the notions and conceptions of sciences. For knowledges 683 2, Int | either premeditate, in verbis conceptis, where nothing is left to 684 2, XXII| the Italians make touching conclaves, the natures of the several 685 2, XX | concluded as Demosthenes concludes his counsel, Quae si feceritis, 686 1, VIII| of all fears together, as concomitantia.~“Felix, qui potuit rerum 687 2, XXII| men qui magnam felicitatem concoquere non possunt. So the Psalm 688 2, V | discord or harsh accord upon a concord or sweet accord, alike true 689 2, IX | pride) in the heart, and concupiscence or sensuality in the liver, 690 1, IV | so that these four causes concurring—the admiration of ancient 691 2, II | fame, caput inter nubila condit, her head is muffled from 692 2, Int | and framed springheads, conduits, cisterns, and pools, which 693 2, XXI | household terms of promus and condus) is formed also in all things, 694 2, XXII| man bringeth them to the confectionary that receipts might be made 695 1, IV | better intelligence and confederacy with the imagination of 696 1, VII | made, divers of the army conferred familiarly with Falinus; 697 2, IV | appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality 698 2, XXV | were as visible prayers or confessions: but now the adoration being 699 2, VII | touching the contexture or configuration of things, as de mundo, 700 2, II | respect of the climates and configurations towards the heavens: which 701 1, III | of their mind can hardly confine itself to dwell in the exquisite 702 2, III | world, both for the better confirmation of faith and for the better 703 Int | and St. Albans, and he was confirmed in his office of King’s 704 1, VI | et auro locus est in quo conflatur, ferrum de terra tollitur, 705 1, VII | war: undertaking therein a conflict against the greatest champion 706 2, XXII| precedent disposition to conform himself thereunto. Which 707 2, XX | of man to become true and conformable to these pursuits, they 708 2, VII | which heretofore have been confounded as one, to be two distinct 709 2, VII | heretofore hath been handled confusedly with metaphysic, I have 710 2, VII | author or opinion, but to confute and reprove; wherein for 711 2, III | better establishment and the confuting of those which are as without 712 2, IX | distributively, the other congregate or in society; so as human 713 2, IV | by these insinuations and congruities with man’s nature and pleasure, 714 2, X | therefore, the poets did well to conjoin music and medicine in Apollo, 715 1, V | more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than 716 2, IX | simple and particular, or conjugate and civil. Humanity particular 717 2, XIV | relatives, parallels, and conjugates, whereas no such thing is; 718 2, I | a family, and the simple conjugations of man and wife, parent 719 2, XI | hath his predictions, as of conjunctions, aspects, eclipses, and 720 1, VI | in another place, Nunquid conjungere valebis micantes stellas 721 1, VIII| knowledge of causes and the conquest of all fears together, as 722 2, XXII| these: Immanitati autem consentaneum est opponere eam, quae supra 723 1, III | expressing, and to men’s consents in the allowing. This only 724 2, X | variable hath made the art by consequent more conjectural; and the 725 2, XXI | So as there remaineth the conserving of it, and perfecting or 726 2, VIII| and that is positive and considerative, when the inquiry reporteth 727 1, III | ibi tamen, ubi oportet, consisteremus: and yet himself might have 728 1, VIII| from place to place, and consociateth the most remote regions 729 Int | Fleming. The Earl of Essex consoled his friend by giving him “ 730 1, III | handleth it well; such a consonancy it hath to men’s conceits 731 2, IV | also with the agreement and consort it hath with music, it hath 732 2, II | expedition of Cyrus Minor, the conspiracy of Catiline, cannot but 733 1, V | both heaven and earth do conspire and contribute to the use 734 2, IV | rest of the gods having conspired to bind Jupiter, Pallas 735 2, XX | motions of the spirit, and the constancy or wavering of belief; all 736 1, VII | and buildings, insomuch as Constantine the Great in emulation was 737 2, XXV | parts which seem to me not constantly occupate, or not well converted 738 2, IX | allowed. So, then, we have constituted (as in our own wish and 739 2, XXII| mind against necessity and constraint. Many other axioms there 740 1, VI | as if we should judge or construe of the store of some excellent 741 2, Int | governors in universities, of consultation, and in princes or superior 742 2, XXII| wherein few men do hold any consultations touching the reformation 743 2, XXV | Father; in the whole act and consummation, to the Son; and in the 744 2, X | discontinuations, putrefactions, consumptions, contractions, extensions, 745 1, IV | scoffing echo, Decem annos consuumpsi in legendo Cicerone; and 746 2, XI | things, and specially of the contagion that passeth from body to 747 1, VI | that putrefaction is more contagious before maturity than after; 748 1, IV | the people being apt to contemn truths upon occasion of 749 1, V | aliud quam bene ausus vana contemnere. And the same happened to 750 1, VII | of outward things, or the contemning of them, be the greatest 751 2, II | that root, Non prius laudes contempsimus, quam laudanda facere desivimus: 752 1, III | ut cum ad ultimum animo contendissemus, ibi tamen, ubi oportet, 753 1, II | with great applause and contentation in the hands of Misitheus, 754 1, VII | saw Diogenes so perfectly contented with so little, he said 755 2, XIV | chiefly the facility in contenting ourselves with the more 756 Int | strong for disputatious and contentions, but barren of the production 757 1, IV | fantastical learning; the second, contentious learning; and the last, 758 1, III | persuasions, and not with contestations.” And Caesar’s counsellor 759 2, XXI | themselves: one of preserving and continuing their form; another of advancing 760 Int | s Essays were subject to continuous addition and revision. The 761 2, XV | assureth copy of invention, and contracteth judgment to a strength. 762 1, I | and yet without any such contracting or coarctation, but that 763 2, X | putrefactions, consumptions, contractions, extensions, convulsions, 764 2, XXII| disposition contrary to contradict and cross;” and deserveth 765 2, XV | jest, or the falsifying or contradicting of everything by cavil, 766 2, XXV | foresight of all heresies, contradictions, differing estates of the 767 2, XIII| Contra Neptunum, et Venerem, contraque Minervam, &c.”~And if you 768 1, VIII| Satan, so by argument of contraries, the just and lawful sovereignty 769 1, V | and earth do conspire and contribute to the use and benefit of 770 1, IV | wits and industries have contributed in one; and in the latter 771 2, X | multitude of anatomies, and the contribution of men’s several experiences, 772 1, I | knowledge there is much contristation, and that he that increaseth 773 2, XXII| suffering, which draweth and contriveth use and advantage out of 774 2, XIII| caelestia dona, distilling and contriving it out of particulars natural 775 1, VII | excellent a patroness; the convenient estate of wealth and means, 776 1, V | philosophy down from heaven to converse upon the earth—that is, 777 1, VII | to office, and familiar converser with learned professors 778 2, VI | and revolted spirits, the conversing with them or the employment 779 2, XIV | of heaven, whereupon the conversion is accomplished, so assuredly 780 2, XXV | converted by nature, and partly converteth nature; and poison is that 781 2, XX | the time of Epictetus, in converting it into an occupation or 782 1, VI | north, and the finiteness or convexity of heaven are manifestly 783 1, II | And these medicines it conveyeth into men’s minds much more 784 2, VIII| apparently detected and convicted of untruth, that man’s knowledge 785 2, VI | are, that it sufficeth to convince atheism, but not to inform 786 2, XVI | Coenae fercula nostrae~Mallem convivis quam placuisse cocis.”~And 787 2, XXII| est, sed et quomodo sui copiam faciat: utrumque enum volumeus, 788 1, VIII| temerity, and insolency, by copious suggestion of all doubts 789 2, VIII| and instead of her had copulation with a cloud, of which mixture 790 2, XXII| portae: quarum altera fertur Cornea, qua veris facilis datur 791 1, VI | correspondence in nature and corporal things to knowledge in spirits 792 2, XIX | performed my last duties to the corpse with kisses, with tears, 793 2, XIX | been wisely noted, the most corrected copies are commonly the 794 2, XXII| Hippocrates, Qui gravi morbo correpti dolores non sentiunt, iis 795 2, X | found in man’s body certain correspondences and parallels, which should 796 1, II | learning, whereof the one correspondeth to the body, the other to 797 2, II | those that have fretted and corroded the sound bodies of many 798 1, III | mihi lucrefeci; whereas the corrupter sort of mere politiques, 799 1, IV | furthest, and time leeseth and corrupteth. So we see artillery, sailing, 800 1, VIII| consideration of the mortality and corruptible nature of things, he will 801 1, II | his which were then termed corrupting of manners, were after acknowledged 802 1, III | revocans quae jampridem corruptis moribus ludibrio sunt; and 803 2, IV | expounded ingeniously but corruptly by Machiavel, that it belongeth 804 2, I | servant, which are in every cottage. Even so likewise the nature 805 2, Int | besides the advancement and countenancing of them in general) are 806 2, XIV | times hitting or presence countervails ofttimes failing or absence, 807 1, V | knowledge may not be as a courtesan, for pleasure and vanity 808 2, I | and said, “More than for courtesy’s sake, he did think much 809 2, XXI | am I moved with certain courtly decencies, which esteem 810 2, XXV | which are seals to the covenant, or as the visible word; 811 2, XIV | nature of man doth extremely covet to have somewhat in his 812 2, XXI | convulsions, as those which cramp in matters impertinent; 813 2, XX | soldier should be, e tela crassiore, and not so fine as that 814 2, XXI | tardius, and ne glorieris de crastino, nescis partum diei, it 815 1, VII | friends Hephaestion and Craterus, when he said, “That the 816 1, VI | the first form that was created was light, which hath a 817 2, Int | generals. And surely as nature createth brotherhood in families, 818 2, VIII| which giveth it light and credence; whereas if it be singled 819 2, XIII| with a cuique in sua arte credendum. And Celsus acknowledgeth 820 1, IV | good, Oportet discentem credere, yet it must be coupled 821 2, XIV | the like. Nay, it is not credible, till it be opened, what 822 1, IV | he saith, Fingunt simul creduntque: so great an affinity hath 823 2, XIII| men.~“Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit ab Ida, Puberibus 824 2, XXII| discipline was to be used to the Cretans, increpa eos dure, upon 825 2, XXII| disposition of their country, Cretensus semper mendaces, malae bestiae, 826 1, II | whom they had made a person criminal, was made a person heroical, 827 2, XIX | tradition of knowledge, the one critical, the other pedantical. For 828 2, XI | it. And herein comes in crookedly and dangerously a palliation 829 2, XXII| contrary to his natural crookedness.~(12) Another precept is 830 2, XXII| contrary to contradict and cross;” and deserveth it not much 831 2, Int | be but as an image in a crossway, that may point at the way, 832 Int | 1603. Bacon was among the crowd of men who were made knights 833 1, VIII| knowledge investeth and crowneth man’s nature. We see the 834 2, XXII| vocatur; and again, Ille crucem pretium sceleris tulit, 835 2, XIX | innocent wretches appointed to cruel death, you have restored 836 1, VII | Whereupon, finding the cry weak and poor, he put it 837 2, XIII| but passeth it over with a cuique in sua arte credendum. And 838 1, VII | a carver or a divider of cummin seed, which is one of the 839 2, V | receiveth by teaching, it is cumulative and not original, as in 840 2, XX | eloquentia, quibus non rerum cupiditatem facit, sed sui. Doctrine 841 1, III | magistratus, neque alia vulgo cupienda, venalia erunt. To conclude 842 2, IV | monarchies need not fear any curbing of their absoluteness by 843 2, II | states, because I will not be curiosus in aliena republica, I cannot 844 2, VII | arctabuntur gressus tui, et currens non habebis offendiculum. 845 2, XXI | ludus per hunc circulum curritur; mori velle non tantum fortis, 846 2, XXV | thunder and denunciation of curses and anathemas, to the terror 847 2, Int | claudus in via antevertit cursorem extra viam; and Solomon 848 1, VII | only were too naked and cursory, I will not omit it altogether. 849 1, V | race is hindered,~“Declinat cursus, aurumque volubile tollit.” ~~~~~~ 850 1, VIII| puppets, that goeth behind the curtain, and adviseth well of the 851 2, XX | saith, Ante omnia, fili, custodi cor tuum: nam inde procedunt 852 2, XIII| bespoken, he should be weakly customed. But our Saviour, speaking 853 1, I | it were but as a tinkling cymbal.” Not but that it is an 854 1, VII | virtue untaxed) he was called Cymini Sector, a carver or a divider 855 1, III | Stoic would turn to be a Cynic.” But, above all the rest, 856 2, XXI | rather in a satire and cynically, than seriously and wisely; 857 2, XX | and on the other side, the Cyrenaics and Epicureans, who placed 858 2, Int | appertaining to Vulcanus or Daedalus, furnace or engine, or any 859 2, XXII| indignation call poesy vinum daemonum, because it increaseth temptations, 860 1, IV | consuls, to give advice; the damage is infinite that sciences 861 2, XVI | verses as of dances; for a dance is a measured pace, as a 862 2, XVI | measures of verses as of dances; for a dance is a measured 863 2, XIX | and another to practise dancing with heavy shoes.~A third 864 2, VIII| the pen of Severinus the Dane; and that of Tilesius, and 865 1, I | manifest that there is no danger at all in the proportion 866 2, XI | herein comes in crookedly and dangerously a palliation of a great 867 1, VII | experience; the one sort keeping dangers afar off, whereas the other 868 2, II | age. For so the prophet Daniel speaking of the latter times 869 1, IV | light into one corner, you darken the rest; so that the fable 870 1, I | discover natural things, but it darkeneth and shutteth up divine.” 871 1, VIII| Victorque volentes~Per populos dat jura, viamque affectat Olympo.”~ 872 2, XXII| Cornea, qua veris facilis datur exitus umbris: Altera candenti 873 2, XIV | whereof is such as it doth not dazzle or snare the understanding 874 2, XVI | divers that are dumb and deaf, that men’s minds are expressed 875 Int | studies chosen, or the way of dealing with them. This came, he 876 2, Int | transmit and commend over their dearest pledges. Queen Elizabeth 877 2, VIII| intrude itself if it be not debarred; which is, that when a doubt 878 2, XXI | The former question being debated between Socrates and a sophist, 879 1, IV | make the scoffing echo, Decem annos consuumpsi in legendo 880 Int | appear until November or December, 1612, seven years later 881 2, XXI | moved with certain courtly decencies, which esteem it flattery 882 1, Int | profluens, et quae principem deceret, eloquentia fuit. For if 883 2, XII | nevertheless are faces,~“Quales decet esse sororum.”~Neither is 884 2, XXI | But the second question, decided the true way, maketh the 885 2, XVI | that they be impossible to decipher; and, in some cases, that 886 2, XVI | of them which exclude the decipherer. But in regard of the rawness 887 2, XVI | hath for relative an art of deciphering, by supposition unprofitable, 888 1, VII | myself, and not a humour of declaiming in any man’s praises. Observe, 889 1, VII | be thought fitter for a declamation than agreeable to a treatise 890 2, II | council, judicial proceedings, declarations and letters of estate, orations, 891 1, V | the race is hindered,~“Declinat cursus, aurumque volubile 892 2, X | and while virtue is in declination, are voluptuary: so I doubt 893 2, XXV | confutation of falsehood. The declinations from religion, besides the 894 1, III | the ancient custom was to dedicate them only to private and 895 2, XXII| nor the like but when he dedicateth and applieth himself to 896 2, Int | be forgotten, that this dedicating of foundations and dotations 897 1, III | learning. Neither is the modern dedication of books and writings, as 898 2, XIII| very truly, Usus uni rei deditus et naturam et artem saepe 899 2, XXV | knowledge; but in them, or by deducement from them, to handle the 900 2, XXV | reason which draweth down and deduceth the inferior positions. 901 2, XIII| account it a chase as well of deer in an enclosed park as in 902 1, V | content to add but it must deface; surely the advice of the 903 2, X | great deal of sloth and default; for if we will excite and 904 2, XXII| fortune for the most part defeateth men qui magnam felicitatem 905 1, VI | the end to make a total defection from God and to depend wholly 906 2, XXV | which will vanish, but defective in books which will remain, 907 1, III | which may be more properly defended than truly denied, is that 908 1, V | to be a sharp champion or defender, to be a methodical compounder 909 1, I | senses are but reporters, he defineth likewise in these words, 910 1, VII | et tanquam clavi in altum defixi: whereof I will only recite 911 2, XIV | consequence, by the variations and deflections from which errors and inconsequences 912 2, I | which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course 913 1, IV | adored the deceiving and deformed images which the unequal 914 1, III | superficial levities and deformities, but was inwardly replenished 915 2, II | bona fama propria possessio defunctorum; which possession I cannot 916 1, IV | lectures and writings almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes, 917 1, I | unlike unto that which he deilvereth in another place: “If I 918 Int | Bacon. The Queen, after delay and hesitation, gave it, 919 2, IV | magnanimity, morality and to delectation. And therefore, it was ever 920 2, IX | needeth, as Socrates said, “a Delian diver,” being difficult 921 2, XXII| De partibus vitae quisque deliberat, de summa nemo), may make 922 1, IV | truth—but will despise those delicacies and affectations, as indeed 923 1, III | say that the felicity and delicacy of princes and great persons 924 2, III | judgments, chastisements, deliverances, and blessings; and this 925 1, V | whereby they are deservedly deluded.~(7) Another error that 926 2, II | recover somewhat from the deluge of time.~(4) In these kinds 927 2, Int | asketh some knowledge to demand a question not impertinent, 928 2, XXV | the state of the question demanded: the reason whereof is, 929 2, XXV | the error of Nicodemus, demanding to have things made more 930 1, VII | but relinquished their demands, and made it their suit 931 2, II | ancient non imitabile fulmen,~“Demens qui nimbos et non imitabile 932 1, VII | the titles of worthies or demigods, such as were Hercules, 933 1, VIII| cities, have been decayed and demolished? It is not possible to have 934 2, VIII| sufficient subtlety, nor demonstrated with sufficient perspicuity, 935 1, I | philosophy;” that experience demonstrates how learned men have been 936 2, XXV | invida jura negant. So said Dendamis the Indian unto Alexander’ 937 2, XXII| every day’s conference the denominations of sensitive, dry, formal, 938 2, VII | of gravity and levity, of density, of tenuity, of heat, of 939 2, XXV | it with the thunder and denunciation of curses and anathemas, 940 2, IV | terra parens, ira irritat Deorum, Extremam, ut perhibent, 941 1, VIII| they be used, their verdure departeth, which showeth well they 942 2, IX | the consideration of that dependency which the affections of 943 2, VIII| latitude of operation which dependeth upon the knowledge of forms, 944 2, X | patient after the disease is deplored; whereas in my judgment 945 2, II | and the public faces and deportments of persons, and passeth 946 2, XX | perturbation; as if they would have deposed Jupiter again, and restored 947 1, II | it is assuredly a mere depravation and calumny, without all 948 1, IV | of men to scandalise and deprave that which retaineth the 949 2, V | it seemeth to me rather a depredation of other sciences, advanced 950 2, VIII| spirits, the manner of the depredations which spirits make upon 951 1, VI | he takes knowledge of the depression of the southern pole, calling 952 2, I | their oppositions, decays, depressions, oblivions, removes, with 953 2, XXI | his instruction: Quaerenti derisori scientiam ipsa se abscondit; 954 2, Int | were weak or ignorant, it derogateth from the authority of the 955 2, Int | to speak, for that (not derogating from the noble intention 956 1, III | somewhat of the two former. The derogations therefore which grow to 957 2, Int | of immortality in their descendants, should likewise be more 958 2, VII | or ladder, ascendent and descendent, ascending from experiments 959 1, IV | spring-head from whence it descendeth, so knowledge derived from 960 2, XXII| and fortune, as the verse describes it, Prosperum et felix scelus 961 2, VII | are parts of knowledge not deserted by the labour of man.~(5) 962 1, V | unto them, whereby they are deservedly deluded.~(7) Another error 963 2, Int | intention of any that have been deservers towards the state of learning), 964 1, VII | perfection of justice, yet in deserving of the weal of the subject 965 2, VIII| follow many indications and designations of new particulars, if men 966 1, II | in regard of their own designments; only learned men love business 967 1, III | pariter cum honore pecuniae desinent; si neque magistratus, neque 968 2, XXI | and the sophist in much desiring and much enjoying, they 969 1, III | ordainment, and therefore are desirous to give their account to 970 1, VII | said, “That if he did not desist, he would lay him dead in 971 2, II | contempsimus, quam laudanda facere desivimus: yet that will not alter 972 2, XX | excellent parts to have despaired of a fortune, which the 973 2, X | after his disease was judged desperate, he drowned his stomach 974 2, IX | science of medicine if it be destituted and forsaken by natural 975 1, II | business which can hold or detain their mind.~(6) And if any 976 1, III | may say, Quo meliores, eo deteriores; yet in regard of this, 977 2, XX | planted, doth judge and determine most of the controversies 978 2, X | Fulmine Phoebigenam Stygias detrusit ad undas.”~And again —~“ 979 2, X | footsteps of diseases, and their devastations of the inward parts, impostumations, 980 2, XV | great copy, and such as by device and practice may be exalted 981 1, IV | arts mechanical the first deviser comes shortest, and time 982 1, IV | extensive to all knowledge: Devita profanas vocum novitates, 983 1, V | whereas the more constant and devote kind of professors of any 984 2, XI | cogitations and raise the devotions of them that pray before 985 1, V | of the father. For as he devoureth his children, so one of 986 2, XV | but barren, that is, not dexterous to be applied to the serious 987 2, XXII| pretium sceleris tulit, hic diadema: which the poets do speak 988 2, XXV | things, as a kind of divine dialectic: which for that it is not 989 2, II | navigations, and the like, to keep diaries of that which passeth continually.~( 990 2, X | mithridatum, and of late diascordium, and a few more, they tie 991 2, XIII| serpents, than to men.~“Dictamnum genetrix Cretaea carpit 992 1, VII | therefore knew not how to dictate.”~(30) And here it were 993 2, V | according to the Scripture, Didici quod omnia opera, quoe fecit 994 1, VIII| verses:—~“Scilicet ingenuas didicisse fideliter artes~Emollit 995 2, XXI | crastino, nescis partum diei, it maketh us to desire 996 2, IX | scruples and superstitions of diet and other regiment of the 997 2, XXI | if you see him first, he dieth—so is it with deceits and 998 2, VIII| thereof; wherein if I have differed from the ancient and received 999 2, VIII| Britain, or Hugh of Bourdeaux, differs from Caesar’s Commentaries 1000 2, XXII| weak: for if too high, in a diffident nature you discourage, in 1001 2, XXI | metuas, sunt animi pusilli et diffidentis. And it seemeth to me that