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It really does take special effort to be this frucking stupid, Internet. It’s a quote from Bacon, for crying out loud. It’s not that big a deal b/c I have Bartlette’s right over there on the shelf. On the other hand, there’s no room on my desk. OMG! Adding “Bacon quote” to the search sure
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I hope you enjoyed the last few days (weeks?) of quotes from James Cash Penney, founder of the Golden Rule store– later known as JCPenney. It’s time to MoveOn. move on. (I must say, I was not expecting to have to do that strike through. That’s what Dictation did, and I thought it worth noting.)
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4/23/2020 I mentioned earlier that it is Shakespeare Day here on The Farm. Our Guide to Daily Readings asserts that today in the year 1564 William Shakespeare was born (some little controversy about this), and today in the year 1616 he died. What a world this opens up for blogging today! [Aside. Here on The
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Daughter C gave my camera back to me. Complete with 188 images of Walter Anderson’s house in Ocean Springs, Mississippi! The print is “Landscape with Farmhouse” by Mondrain in Metropolitan Seminars in Art Portfolio 4: Abstraction, John Canaday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1959. The various pieces of clutter are petrified wood that Daughter C
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“Eminent Men” by W. Warman who does not have a Wikipedia page! In fact, according to the World Wide Web, he barely exists. But he did paint “Eminent Women” on the occasion of the twentieth anniversary of Queen Victoria’s accession to the throne (1857). The queen is naturally in the center. This is the companion
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[Note: I began writing this and had intended to finish and publish it before the big snow storm. Alas, that did not happen. Here is what I had saved.] This is not a book report on Francis Bacon so I’m not going to re-hash what you can find in a decent encyclopedia or on Wikipedia.
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I bequeath my soul to God… My body to be buried obscurely. For my name and memory, I leave it to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and the next age. From Bacon’s last will and testament
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Reading maketh a man full, conferences a ready, and writing an exact man; therefore if a man write little, he had need of a great memory; if he confer little, he had need of a present wit; and if he read little, he had need have much cunning to seem to know what he doth
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Nothing doth more hurt a state than that cunning men pass for wise. From Francis Bacon’s essay, “Of Cunning” (1625)
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In dealing with cunning persons, we must ever consider their ends to interpret their speeches, and it is good to say little unto them, and that which they least look for. From Francis Bacon’s tenth essay– the last in the first edition– “Of Negotiating” (1597) There are two related essays that come up in the
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Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue. From Bacon’s Essay “Of Adversity” (1625) The pipes in the Jager Haus (formerly known as the Bunk House) are still frozen. Such adversity we suffer here at Farther
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He that seeketh victory over his nature, let him not set himself too great nor too small tasks… . At first, let him practice with helps, as swimmers do with bladders or rushes; but after a time let him practice with disadvantages, as dancers do with thick shoes; for it breeds great perfection if the
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You may have noticed that I have Bacon on my Brain. Miss M has noticed, too. In an effort to direct my attentions elsewhere, Miss M suggested a little play on words: Six Degrees of Separation from Kevin Francis Bacon. I cannot connect to Francis Bacon in six degrees on account of the fact that
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Therefore, since custom is the principle magistrate of man’s life, let men by all means endeavor to obtain good customs. Certainly, custom is most perfect when it beginneth in young years. This we call education; which is, in effect, but an early custom. Francis Bacon, “Of Custom and Education” (1625) As is my custom, I
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The Short Story is Francis Bacon was a man who was born in England a long time ago, who wrote a lot of stuff, spent four days in jail which it seems everyone on the world-wide-web wants to talk about, counseled royalty, thought scientific investigation should be inductive and methodical, and who died in 1626.
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Wives are young men’s mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men’s nurses. From Bacon’s essay “Of Marriage and Single Life” Bacon had an interesting personal/love life. You can read about it at that infallible source.
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Lady Fortune at her wheel If a man look sharply and attentively he shall see Fortune; for though she is blind, she is not invisible. From Bacon’s essay, “Of Fortune”
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Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. From Bacon’s “Elegant Sentences.”
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All from “Elegant Sentences” in Bacon’s Essays, this month’s crappy old book of the month. (See sidebar for full citation information.) It is a strange desire which men have to seek power and lose liberty. Children increase the cares of life; but they mitigate the remembrance of death. A man’s nature runs either to herbs
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