The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1Baynes and son, 1824 |
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... Demosthenes , " there is a great difference between the things that you and I do by lamp - light . " So as no man need doubt that learning will expulse business ; but rather it will keep and defend the possession of the mind against ...
... Demosthenes , " there is a great difference between the things that you and I do by lamp - light . " So as no man need doubt that learning will expulse business ; but rather it will keep and defend the possession of the mind against ...
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... Demosthenes , Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are commonly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend sometimes ...
... Demosthenes , Cicero , Cato the second , Seneca , and many more ) that , because the times they read of are commonly better than the times they live in , and the duties taught better than the duties practised , they contend sometimes ...
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... Demosthenes unto the Athenians : " If it please you to note it , my counsels unto you are not such , whereby I should grow great amongst you , and you become little amongst the Grecians : but they be of that nature , as they are ...
... Demosthenes unto the Athenians : " If it please you to note it , my counsels unto you are not such , whereby I should grow great amongst you , and you become little amongst the Grecians : but they be of that nature , as they are ...
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... Demosthenes , and allure all young men , that were studious , into that delicate and polished kind of learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo : Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone : and the echo ...
... Demosthenes , and allure all young men , that were studious , into that delicate and polished kind of learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo : Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone : and the echo ...
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... Demosthenes , that bona fama propria pos- sessio defunctorum ; which possession I cannot but note , that in our times it lieth much waste , and that therein there is a deficience . For Narrations and Relations of particular actions ...
... Demosthenes , that bona fama propria pos- sessio defunctorum ; which possession I cannot but note , that in our times it lieth much waste , and that therein there is a deficience . For Narrations and Relations of particular actions ...
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