Utopia: or, The happy republic. To which is added, The new Atlantis, by lord Bacon. With a prelim. discourse by J.A. St. John |
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Amaurot ancient Antwerp appears Aristotle Atlantis Bensalem better BISHOP BURNET blue velvet body called carry cerning chief clothes colour commonwealth consider corrupt death delight desire Dion Chrysostom discourse divers divine enemies engaged fall force friends give gold happiness Hippodamos honour houses human idle imagine island judge king labour land laws learning less likewise live look Lord Bacon magistrates man's mankind manner matter ment mind Mithras Muretus nations nature never observed occasion Ochlocracy Oligarchy opinion perhaps persons Peter Giles philosopher Plato pleasure practice preserved priests prince punishment Raphael reader reason reckon religion Republic rest rich rience seems serve ship sick sion Sir Thomas slaves sort Stallbaum strangers syphogrants thieves things thought Timocracies tion tirsan town Utopians virtue wealth whole wise women
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Страница 36 - The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith, makes up the highest perfection.
Страница 245 - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Страница 179 - With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light: There let the pealing organ blow, To the full-voiced choir below, In service high, and anthems clear, As may with sweetness through mine ear, Dissolve me into ecstasies, And bring all Heaven before mine eyes.
Страница xliii - Wherein of antres vast and deserts idle, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak, — such was the process: And of the Cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders.
Страница 249 - We have also large and various orchards and gardens, wherein we do not so much respect beauty as variety of ground and soil, proper for divers trees and herbs...
Страница 49 - I had the honour to have much conversation with Brutus ; and was told, that his ancestor Junius, Socrates, Epaminondas, Cato the younger, Sir Thomas More, and himself were perpetually together : a sextumvirate, to which all the ages of the world cannot add a seventh.
Страница 179 - Or the unseen Genius of the wood. But let my due feet never fail, To walk the studious cloister's pale, And love the high embowed roof, With antique pillars massy proof, And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.
Страница 237 - You have reason for to commend that excellent institution of the feast of the family; and indeed we have experience, that those families that are partakers of the blessings of that feast, do flourish and prosper ever after, in an extraordinary manner. But hear me now, and I will tell you what I know. You shall understand that there is not under the heavens so chaste a nation as this of Bensalem, nor so free from all pollution or foulness. It is the virgin of the world...
Страница 187 - Therefore I must say that, as I hope for mercy, I can have no other notion of all the other governments that I see or know, than that they are a conspiracy of the rich, who on pretence of managing the public only pursue their private ends...
Страница 114 - How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns.