The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7W. Pickering, 1827 |
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... received much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection , stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney - corner . " And , in a note he adds ...
... received much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection , stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney - corner . " And , in a note he adds ...
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... received doctrine of the Trinity , is obvious , from the prayer made by him when Chancellor of Eng- land , and from various passages of the most unequivocal and emphatical kind in his Confession of Faith . " AN ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING ...
... received doctrine of the Trinity , is obvious , from the prayer made by him when Chancellor of Eng- land , and from various passages of the most unequivocal and emphatical kind in his Confession of Faith . " AN ADVERTISEMENT TOUCHING ...
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... the laws of nature , which now remain and govern invio- lably till the end of the world , began to be in force when God first rested from his works , and ceased to create ; but received a revocation , in part , 12 A CONFESSION OF FAITH .
... the laws of nature , which now remain and govern invio- lably till the end of the world , began to be in force when God first rested from his works , and ceased to create ; but received a revocation , in part , 12 A CONFESSION OF FAITH .
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Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. create ; but received a revocation , in part , by the curse ; since which time they change not . That notwithstanding God hath rested and ceased from creating since the first sabbath , yet , ne ...
Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. create ; but received a revocation , in part , by the curse ; since which time they change not . That notwithstanding God hath rested and ceased from creating since the first sabbath , yet , ne ...
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... receiving of the holy doctrine , with the use of the mysteries of God , and the invocation , and sanctification of his holy name . That there is also an holy succession in the prophets of the new testa- ment and fathers of the Church ...
... receiving of the holy doctrine , with the use of the mysteries of God , and the invocation , and sanctification of his holy name . That there is also an holy succession in the prophets of the new testa- ment and fathers of the Church ...
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Page 29 - Wherefore, my beloved brethren, let every man be swift to hear, slow to speak, slow to wrath...
Page xxxviii - No man ever spoke more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke...
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 v - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Page 5 - 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 misspent 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 into thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways.
Page iv - But farther, 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 farther proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion ; for in the entrance of philosophy...
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 to 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...
Page xxxiv - Remember (O Lord) how thy servant hath walked before thee; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of thy sanctuary. This vine which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee that it might have the first and the latter rain; and that it might stretch her branches to the seas and to the floods.
Page xxxvii - And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof JEsop makes the fable, that when he died told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under 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 following...