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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... example in one , who held so great and important a trust . To this high dignity Sir Francis Bacon privately aspired : and as it was the utmost scope of his ambition , he had aimed all his endeavours in the king's service to merit it at ...
... example in one , who held so great and important a trust . To this high dignity Sir Francis Bacon privately aspired : and as it was the utmost scope of his ambition , he had aimed all his endeavours in the king's service to merit it at ...
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... example of all that is great and exalted , of all that is little and low , in man . Such inconsistencies in our human na- ture cannot but alarm and terrify even those who are most confirmed in a habit of virtue . p . 263 . After a short ...
... example of all that is great and exalted , of all that is little and low , in man . Such inconsistencies in our human na- ture cannot but alarm and terrify even those who are most confirmed in a habit of virtue . p . 263 . After a short ...
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... example , as by the encouragement he gave to learned men , the great restorer of arts in his dominions . And here we are called upon to observe , that as France had been formerly obliged to England in the person of Alcuin , who planted ...
... example , as by the encouragement he gave to learned men , the great restorer of arts in his dominions . And here we are called upon to observe , that as France had been formerly obliged to England in the person of Alcuin , who planted ...
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... examples of inquiry and investigation , agreeable to his own me- thod , in certain subjects ; selecting such especially as are of the noblest order , and most widely differing from one another , that instances of every sort might not be ...
... examples of inquiry and investigation , agreeable to his own me- thod , in certain subjects ; selecting such especially as are of the noblest order , and most widely differing from one another , that instances of every sort might not be ...
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... examples , or too incompatible and differing from the times , by reason of the dissimilitude of examples ; or at least , that it doth divert men's travels from action and business , and bringeth them to a love of leisure and privateness ...
... examples , or too incompatible and differing from the times , by reason of the dissimilitude of examples ; or at least , that it doth divert men's travels from action and business , and bringeth them to a love of leisure and privateness ...
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