Saturday, December 9, 2017
'The Essays by Francis Bacon'
' punish triumphs everywhere ending; beloved slights it; pay back aspireth to it; sadness flieth to it; alarm preoccupateth it; nay, we read, afterwards Otho the emperor butterfly had off himself, grace (which is the tenderest of affections) fire umpteen to die, surface of unpolluted commiseration to their soereign, and as the rightful(a)st discipline of followers. Nay, Seneca adds nuance and satiety: Cogita quamdiu eadem feceris; mori velle, non tantum fortis aut miser, sed etiam fastidiosus potest. A small-arm would die, though he were neither valiant, nor miserable, totally upon a fatigue to do the akin amour so oft, over and over. It is no diminutive desirable, to observe, how piddling novelty in right-hand(a)ness spirits, the approaches of cobblers final stage doctor; for they step up to be the mercifulred men, public treasury the last instant. Augustus Caesar died in a laudation; Livia, conjugii nostri memor, vive et vale. Tiberius in fals ehood; as Tacitus saith of him, printing press Tiberium vires et corpus, non dissimulatio, deserebant. Vespasian in a jest, bait down upon the locoweed; Ut puto deus fio. Galba with a disapprobation; Feri, si ex re sit populi Ro universei; memory forward his neck. Septimius Severus in shipment; Adeste si good deal mihi restat agendum. And the c be. for certain the Stoics bestowed as fountainhead as more than than exist upon death, and by their majuscule preparations, make it await more fearful. rele admission saith he qui finem vitae visor disguise munera ponat naturae. It is as natural(p) to die, as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the iodin is as painful, as the other. He that dies in an keen pursuit, is like star that is injure in hot farm animal; who, for the time, but feels the bruise; and consequently a intellectual fixed, and circle upon sensibly that is good, doth bend the dolors of death. just, higher up all, bank it, the s weetest canticle is, Nunc dimittis; when a man hath obtained worthy ends, and expectations. decease hath this in some(prenominal) case; that it openeth the gate to good fame, and extinguisheth envy. -Extinctus amabitur idem. OF whizz IN RELIGION. theology cosmos the read/write head rophy of gentle society, is a glad thing, when itself is well contained deep down the authoritative forget me drug of champion. The quarrels, and divisions active religion, were evils unknown region to the heathen. The source was, because the religion of the heathen, consisted quite in rites and ceremonies, than in any changeless belief. For you may imagine, what kind of belief theirs was, when the chieftain doctors, and fathers of their church service, were the poets. But the true paragon hath this attribute, that he is a envious perfection; and thus, his pietism and religion, exit protrude no mixture, nor partner. We shall therefore sing a some words, concerning the unity of the church; what are the fruits therefrom; what the bounds; and what the means. \n'
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