The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... observation on men and things , should have sent his son to travel at the age of sixteen ; as we find he did : for , by a letter from Sir Amias Powlet , then ambassador in France , it is cer- tain that young Bacon was at Paris , and ...
... observation on men and things , should have sent his son to travel at the age of sixteen ; as we find he did : for , by a letter from Sir Amias Powlet , then ambassador in France , it is cer- tain that young Bacon was at Paris , and ...
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... observed by princes when they would do ill offices to their neigh- bours . The sovereigns of those countries , when they agreed in nothing else , were ever combined in a common enmity to her : at a time too when she had nothing to ...
... observed by princes when they would do ill offices to their neigh- bours . The sovereigns of those countries , when they agreed in nothing else , were ever combined in a common enmity to her : at a time too when she had nothing to ...
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... observation of human falsehood and artifice . To his natural talent he had now added the experience of thirty years more . By accompanying King James in his sports ; by falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his ...
... observation of human falsehood and artifice . To his natural talent he had now added the experience of thirty years more . By accompanying King James in his sports ; by falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his ...
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... observed that Cecil , now earl of Salisbury , opposed the progress of our author's for- tune under Elizabeth : and he seems to have ob- served the same conduct towards him in the present reign , till he had fixed himself in the king's ...
... observed that Cecil , now earl of Salisbury , opposed the progress of our author's for- tune under Elizabeth : and he seems to have ob- served the same conduct towards him in the present reign , till he had fixed himself in the king's ...
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... observed no other measure but that of his passion , which was as extreme as it seemed unaccountable . Car , in four or five years of light , p.89 . favour , from a mere adventurer was raised to be earl Truth brought to of Somerset and ...
... observed no other measure but that of his passion , which was as extreme as it seemed unaccountable . Car , in four or five years of light , p.89 . favour , from a mere adventurer was raised to be earl Truth brought to of Somerset and ...
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