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" For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth... "
The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon: Including All His Occasional ... - Page 85
by Francis Bacon - 1868
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The Shipley Collection of Scientific Papers, Volume 293

1921 - 472 pages
...antiseptics — a truly wonderful^ output for one century. - Here is a more comprehensive Baconian summary: "For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing...having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblance of things (which is the chief point), and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish...
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Eclectic Magazine: Foreign Literature, Volume 10; Volume 73

John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...secret in the world — that man (I thought) would be the benefac'or indeed of the human race, — the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the...subduer of necessities. " For myself, I found that I was fi.ted for nothing so well as f>r the study of Truth; aa having a mind nimble aud versatile enough...
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English Literature Primers: Romance Period

Eugene Lawrence - 1878 - 176 pages
...Bacon. — Bacon began his literary life with resolutions worthy of Milton. "For myself," he says, " I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the stndy of truth." His heart, ho declared, was not set on any exterior things. " I am not hunting for...
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An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - 1880 - 748 pages
...indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's 422 PREFACE FOR DE INTERPRETATIONS NATURAE. [Hoot III. empire over the universe, the champion of liberty,...For myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing BO well as for the study of Truth ; as having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblances...
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Bacon

Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 254 pages
...in accomplishing this work, he truly says, " would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the...liberty, the conqueror and subduer of necessities." And why should he not be the man ? For he believed that he " was born for the service of mankind,"...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 440 pages
...and secret in the world;—that man (I thought) would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and rooter out of necessities. " Then, turning to myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well...
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Evenings with reviewer; or, A free and particular examination of ..., Volume 1

James Spedding - 1881 - 464 pages
...and secret in the world;—that man (I thought) would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and rooter out of necessities. " Then, turning to myself, I found that I was fitted for nothing so well...
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The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called ..., Volume 2

Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...1 Tht Modern British Essayists: Mackintosh, p. 18. 1 Taine's History of Exflish Literature, p. 155. empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and subduer of necessities. He tried even to hurry up civilization. He sought to use the royal power to give the seventeenth century...
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Charles Darwin: His Life Told in an Autobiographical Chapter and in a ...

Charles Darwin - 1892 - 372 pages
...APPENDIX I. — The Funeral in Westminster Abbey. . . . 329 II.— Portraits 331 IKDEX. . . . .333 " For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing so well as for the study of Truth; ... as being gifted by nature with desire to seek, patience to doubt, fondness to meditate, slowness to assert,...
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Introduction to Science

John Arthur Thomson - 1911 - 274 pages
...REFERENCES TO BOOKS 251 INDEX .............. 255 INTRODUCTION TO SCIENCE CHAPTER I THE SCIENTIFIC MOOD " For myself I found that I was fitted for nothing so...having a mind nimble and versatile enough to catch the resemblance of things (which is the chief point), and at the same time steady enough to fix and distinguish...
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