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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... wherein we are all sure , later or sooner to resemble them . There remains only a Bacon , letter , the last he ever wrote , addressed to that noble- Letter ccc . man under whose roof he died ; in which he com- pares himself to a ...
... wherein we are all sure , later or sooner to resemble them . There remains only a Bacon , letter , the last he ever wrote , addressed to that noble- Letter ccc . man under whose roof he died ; in which he com- pares himself to a ...
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... wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleasing conceits toward themselves ; or because it advanceth any other their ends . So that , as it is said . of untrue valours , that some men's valours are in the ...
... wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleasing conceits toward themselves ; or because it advanceth any other their ends . So that , as it is said . of untrue valours , that some men's valours are in the ...
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... wherein he offended ; for when he was past threescore years old , he was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again , and to learn the Greek tongue , to the end to peruse the Greek authors ; which doth well demonstrate , that ...
... wherein he offended ; for when he was past threescore years old , he was taken with an extreme desire to go to school again , and to learn the Greek tongue , to the end to peruse the Greek authors ; which doth well demonstrate , that ...
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... wherein youth is conversant , and which are conversant about youth . But how unjust this traducement is ( if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason ) may appear in that , we see men are more curious what ...
... wherein youth is conversant , and which are conversant about youth . But how unjust this traducement is ( if you will reduce things from popularity of opinion to measure of reason ) may appear in that , we see men are more curious what ...
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... wherein divers professors of learning have wronged themselves , and gone too far ; such as were those trencher philosophers , which in the later age of the Roman state were usually in the houses of great persons , being little better ...
... wherein divers professors of learning have wronged themselves , and gone too far ; such as were those trencher philosophers , which in the later age of the Roman state were usually in the houses of great persons , being little better ...
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