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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... Tacitus finely observes of his father - in - law , Agricola : a good man you would readily have judged him to be , and been pleased to find him a great man . Those talents that commonly appear single in others , and they too men of ...
... Tacitus finely observes of his father - in - law , Agricola : a good man you would readily have judged him to be , and been pleased to find him a great man . Those talents that commonly appear single in others , and they too men of ...
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... Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar ; Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit : For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that savoureth of the affectation of art and ...
... Tacitus saith of Augustus Cæsar ; Augusto profluens , et quæ principem deceret , eloquentia fuit : For , if we note it well , speech that is uttered with labour and difficulty , or speech that savoureth of the affectation of art and ...
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... Tacitus saith , Eo ipso præfulge- bant , quod non visebantur . And for meanness of employment , that which is most traduced to contempt , is , that the government of youth is commonly allotted to them ; which age , be- cause it is the ...
... Tacitus saith , Eo ipso præfulge- bant , quod non visebantur . And for meanness of employment , that which is most traduced to contempt , is , that the government of youth is commonly allotted to them ; which age , be- cause it is the ...
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... Tacitus wisely noteth , when he saith , Fingunt simul creduntque : so great an -affinity hath fiction and belief . This facility of credit , and accepting or admitting things weakly authorized or warranted , is of two kinds , according ...
... Tacitus wisely noteth , when he saith , Fingunt simul creduntque : so great an -affinity hath fiction and belief . This facility of credit , and accepting or admitting things weakly authorized or warranted , is of two kinds , according ...
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... Tacitus touched to the life : Postquam divus Nerva res olim insociabiles miscuisset , imperium et libertatem . And in token of his learning , the last act of his short reign , left to memory , was a missive to his adopted son Trajan ...
... Tacitus touched to the life : Postquam divus Nerva res olim insociabiles miscuisset , imperium et libertatem . And in token of his learning , the last act of his short reign , left to memory , was a missive to his adopted son Trajan ...
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