The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7W. Pickering, 1827 - Law |
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... ground : and well justifying the censure of the heathen , that superstition is far worse than atheism ; by how much it is less evil to have no opinion of God at all , than such as is impious towards his divine majesty and goodness ...
... ground : and well justifying the censure of the heathen , that superstition is far worse than atheism ; by how much it is less evil to have no opinion of God at all , than such as is impious towards his divine majesty and goodness ...
Page xxxvii
... ground in his vineyard ; and they digged over all the ground , and gold they found none : but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines , they had a great vintage the year follow- ing : so ...
... ground in his vineyard ; and they digged over all the ground , and gold they found none : but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines , they had a great vintage the year follow- ing : so ...
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... ground to powder , turned to rottenness , shall be no loser . 34. His Advocate , his Surety shall he his Judge ; his mortal part shall become immortal ; and what was sown in corruption and defilement shall be raised in incorruption and ...
... ground to powder , turned to rottenness , shall be no loser . 34. His Advocate , his Surety shall he his Judge ; his mortal part shall become immortal ; and what was sown in corruption and defilement shall be raised in incorruption and ...
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... ground , descend farther ; That the same must be entered into and accepted of the people , at their peril , without the attending of the establishment of authority . And so in the mean time they refuse to communicate with us , reputing ...
... ground , descend farther ; That the same must be entered into and accepted of the people , at their peril , without the attending of the establishment of authority . And so in the mean time they refuse to communicate with us , reputing ...
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... ground , doth better survey it and discover it than those which are upon it , I thought it not impossible , but that I , as a looker on , might cast mine eyes upon some things which the actors themselves , especially some being ...
... ground , doth better survey it and discover it than those which are upon it , I thought it not impossible , but that I , as a looker on , might cast mine eyes upon some things which the actors themselves , especially some being ...
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Page xxvii - I had rather believe all the fables in the legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind ; and, therefore, God never wrought miracle to convince atheism, because his ordinary works convince it.
Page 373 - And it appears in our books, that in many cases, the common law will control acts of parliament, and sometimes adjudge them to be utterly void ; for when an act of parliament is against common right and reason, or repugnant, or impossible to be performed, the common law will control it, and adjudge such act to be void ; and therefore in 8 E 330 ab Thomas Tregor's case on the statutes of W.
Page 136 - Increase and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it, and rule over the fishes of the sea, and the fowls of the air, and all living creatures that move upon the earth.
Page 8 - This also we humbly and earnestly beg, that human things may not prejudice such as are divine ; neither that from the unlocking of the gates of sense, and the kindling of a greater natural light, anything of incredulity, or intellectual night, may arise in our minds towards divine mysteries.
Page xxxvii - Orpheus theatre ; where all beasts and birds assembled, and forgetting their several appetites, some of prey, some of game, some of quarrel, stood all sociably together listening unto the airs and accords of the harp ; the sound whereof no sooner ceased, or was drowned by some louder noise, but every beast returned to his own nature: wherein is aptly described the nature and condition of men ; who are full of savage and unreclaimed desires, of profit, of lust, of revenge, which as long as they give...
Page 4 - I have, though in a despised weed, procured the good of till men. If any have been my enemies, I thought not of them ; neither hath the sun almost set upon my displeasure ; but I have been as a dove, free from superfluity of maliciousness. Thy creatures have been my books, but thy Scriptures much more. I have sought thee in the courts, fields, and gardens, but I have found thee in thy temples.
Page iv - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion.
Page 296 - there is a time to speak, and a time to keep silence." One meets with people in the world, who seem never to have made the last of these observations. And yet these great talkers do not...
Page 5 - Earth, heavens, and all these, are nothing to thy mercies. Besides my innumerable sins, I confess, before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but mispent it in things for which I was least fit; so I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me...
Page xxxviii - Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker, who was full of gravity in his speaking. His language (where he could spare or pass by a jest) was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered.