The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good and evil. Revised, with references and a few notes by T. Markby |
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... counsellors they commit the whole : by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and integrity . The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness , or derogation to their sufficiency to rely upon counsel ...
... counsellors they commit the whole : by how much the more they are obliged to all faith and integrity . The wisest princes need not think it any diminution to their greatness , or derogation to their sufficiency to rely upon counsel ...
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... counsellors , but may extract and select . Neither is it necessary , that he that consulteth what he should do , should declare what he will do . But let princes beware that the unsecreting of their affairs comes not from themselves ...
... counsellors , but may extract and select . Neither is it necessary , that he that consulteth what he should do , should declare what he will do . But let princes beware that the unsecreting of their affairs comes not from themselves ...
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... counsellors , as well as their counsellors know them : Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos . And on the other side , counsellors should not be too speculative into their sovereign's person . The true com- position of a counsellor is ...
... counsellors , as well as their counsellors know them : Principis est virtus maxima nosse suos . And on the other side , counsellors should not be too speculative into their sovereign's person . The true com- position of a counsellor is ...
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... counsellors blanch . There- fore it is good to be conversant in them , specially the books of such as themselves have been actors upon the stage . The councils at this day in most places are but familiar meetings ; where matters are ...
... counsellors blanch . There- fore it is good to be conversant in them , specially the books of such as themselves have been actors upon the stage . The councils at this day in most places are but familiar meetings ; where matters are ...
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... counsellors will but take the wind of him , and instead of giving free counsel , will sing him a song of placebo . XXI . OF DELAYS . Fortune is like the market , where many times , if you can stay a little , the price will fall . And ...
... counsellors will but take the wind of him , and instead of giving free counsel , will sing him a song of placebo . XXI . OF DELAYS . Fortune is like the market , where many times , if you can stay a little , the price will fall . And ...
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2 페이지 - ... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.
2 페이지 - Certainly it is heaven upon earth to have a man's mind move in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth.
111 페이지 - ... the head ; and the like. So if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics ; for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again: if his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the schoolmen ; for they are cymini sectores. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing, to prove and illustrate another, let him study the lawyers' cases : so every defect of the mind may have a special receipt.
54 페이지 - It is good also not to try experiments in states, except the necessity be urgent, or the utility evident; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.
60 페이지 - ... certain it is, that whosoever hath his mind fraught with many thoughts, his wits and understanding do clarify and break up, in the communicating and discoursing with another; he tosseth his thoughts more easily; he marshalleth them more orderly; he seeth how they look when they are turned into words ; finally, he waxeth wiser than himself; and that more by an hour's discourse than by a day's meditation.
119 페이지 - Patience and gravity of hearing is an essential part of justice, and an over-speaking judge is no well-tuned cymbal. It is no grace to a judge first to find that which he might have heard in due time from the bar, or to show quickness of conceit in cutting off evidence or counsel too short, or to prevent information by questions, though pertinent.
35 페이지 - 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.
121 페이지 - Let judges also remember, that Solomon's throne was supported by lions on both sides : let them be lions, but yet lions under the throne : being circumspect that they do not check or oppose any points of sovereignty. Let not judges also be so ignorant of their own right, as to think there is not left to them, as a principal part of their office, a wise use and application of laws; for they may remember what the apostle saith of a greater law than theirs. "Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea...
1 페이지 - Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day ; but it will not rise to the price of a diamond or carbuncle, that showeth best in varied lights. A mixture of a lie doth ever add pleasure. Doth any man doubt...
27 페이지 - If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world, and that his heart is no island cut off from other lands, but a continent that joins to them : if he be compassionate towards the afflictions of others, it shows that his heart is like the noble tree that is wounded itself when it gives the balm...