Francis BaconФрэнсис Бэкон
2 passagesотрывков: 2
Each date opens its day beside the list, with these passages marked.Каждая дата открывает свой день рядом со списком, где отрывки этого автора отмечены.
7. Души людей бывают временами в состоянии наибольшего совершенства, временами же в состоянии наибольшей развращенности. Дорожи хорошими часами, удерживай их и прогоняй от себя дурные, и тогда всё чаще и чаще будешь жить хорошими часами и реже и реже дурными.
7. The souls of men are at times in a state of the greatest perfection, and at times in a state of the greatest depravity. Treasure the good hours, hold on to them, and drive the bad ones away from you, and then you will live more and more often in good hours, and less and less often in bad ones.
From The Advancement of Learning · reworded by Tolstoy (more).
What changedBacon’s account of a “culture of the mind” becomes a precept, as Coit’s anthology already has it; “more perfect” and “more depraved” become “the greatest perfection” and “the greatest depravity,” and Tolstoy adds a promise: “then you will live more and more often in good hours.”
What Tolstoy read · Stanton Coit, The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical ScripturesThe minds of all men are at some times …
… in other times in a state more depraved, …
Fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, obliterate and take forth the evil.
Source text: archive.orgAfter Bacon’s own wordsBut there is a kind of culture of the mind that seemeth yet more accurate and elaborate than the rest, and is built upon this ground; that the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect, and at other times in a state more depraved. The purpose, therefore, of this practice is to fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, and to obliterate and take forth the evil.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. The Advancement of Learning (1605), Book II, Book II, ch. XXII, § 14, on the culture of the mind.
Changed into a precept with a promise. Bacon describes a 'culture of the mind' built on the ground that 'the minds of all men are at some times in a state more perfect, and at other times in a state more depraved', whose purpose is 'to fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, and to obliterate and take forth the evil'. Coit's The Message of Man, in Tolstoy's list of sources, already drops the frame and gives the second half as a command: 'Fix and cherish the good hours of the mind, obliterate and take forth the evil' (its first clause reads 'in a state more nearly perfect'; the scan's OCR garbles 'in a state', which a marginal heading, 'Fix the best in thee', interrupts). Tolstoy follows Coit: 'more perfect' and 'more depraved' become 'the greatest perfection' and 'the greatest depravity' (наибольшего совершенства, наибольшей развращенности), 'fix and cherish' becomes 'treasure them, hold them', 'obliterate and take forth' becomes 'drive away from yourself', and he adds a close of his own: 'and then you will live more and more often in good hours, and less and less often in bad.' «По Бэкону» marks the retelling. No printable.
5. Обдумывающий месть поддерживает свои раны. Они бы зажили, если бы он этого не делал.
5. He who meditates revenge keeps his wounds open. They would heal if he did not.
From Of Revenge, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral · close to the original (more).
What Tolstoy read · The Message of Man: A Book of Ethical Scriptures, gathered by Stanton CoitA man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
Source text: archive.orgBacon’s own wordsThis is certain, that a man that studieth revenge, keeps his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal, and do well.
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The words shown were found, word for word, in the saved source text. Of Revenge, in The Essays or Counsels, Civil and Moral (1625), Essay IV, its third paragraph.
A close translation of Bacon's sentence, made two: 'a man that studieth revenge keeps his own wounds green' becomes 'He who ponders revenge keeps his wounds open' (поддерживает свои раны), and 'which otherwise would heal, and do well' becomes 'They would heal if he did not do this'; 'and do well' is not translated. Coit's The Message of Man (1902), one of Tolstoy's anthologies, prints the sentence alone, without Bacon's 'This is certain, that', as verse 6 of its chapter 'Return Good for Evil' (What Tolstoy read); March's Bacon came from the same book. No printable, for the words left out.