Syntaktische Untersuchungen zu Bacon's Essays

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Königlichen Universität Marburg, 1889 - English language - 53 pages
 

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Page 43 - It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura...
Page 43 - Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times ; unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges. Some there are, who though they lead a single life, yet their thoughts do end with themselves, and account future times impertinences.
Page 8 - The Essayes or Counsels, CIVILL AND MORALL, OF FRANCIS Lo: VERULAM, VISCOUNT ST. ALBAN. NEWLY WRITTEN. London: Printed by John Haviland for Hanna Barret, 1625.
Page 26 - Profit is not to be neglected, as farre as may stand, with the Good of the Plantation, but no further. It is a Shamefull and Unblessed Thing, to take the Scumme of People, and Wicked Condemned Men, to be the People with whom you Plant...
Page 43 - Prosperitse; and great Aduersitie; though this latter hath beene lesse obserued. Both which times kindle Loue, and make it more feruent, and therefore shew it to be the Childe of Folly. They doe best, who, if they cannot but admit Loue, yet make it keepe Quarter: And seuer it wholly, from their serious Affaires, and Actions of life: For if it checke once with Businesse, it troubleth Mens Fortunes, and maketh Men, that they can, no wayes be true, to their owne Ends...
Page 9 - Untersuchungen über den Ausfall des Relativpronomens in den germanischen Sprachen. Strassburg 1872).
Page 8 - The four principal texts appearing in parallel columns ; viz. : — (1) Essayes. Religious Meditations. Places of perswasion and disswasion. London 1597. (10 Essays.) Of the Coulers of good and euill a fragment. 1597. (2) The Writings of Sr Francis Bacon Knt : the Kinges Sollicitor Generall : in Moralitie, Policie, and Historie.
Page 48 - ... awake, to make Obiections. I knew a Counsellor and Secretary, that neuer came to Queene Elizabeth of England, with Bills to signe, but he would alwaies first put her into some discourse of Estate, that she mought the lesse minde the Bills. The like Surprize, may be made, by Mouing things, .when the Party is in haste, and cannot stay, to consider aduisedly, of that is moued.
Page 21 - ... Kings times, hath introduced Cabinet Counsels; A Remedy worse then the Disease. As to Secrecy; Princes are not bound to communicate all Matters, with all Counsellors; but may extract and select. Neither is it necessary, that he that consulteth what he should doe, should declare what he will doe. But let Princes beware, that the unsecreting of their Affaires, comes not from Themselves.
Page 7 - Unlike almost all the greatest men of his own and even of the preceding generation, he seems ' to have thought little of the capacities, and less of the chances of the English language. He held (and, unluckily for him, expressed his opinion in writing) that " these modern languages will at one time or the other play the bankrupt with books...

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