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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... virtue ; and a strong restraint on the most abandoned , in their career of vice . Whoever undertakes to write the life of any person , deserving to be remembered by posterity , ought to look upon this law as prescribed to him . He is ...
... virtue ; and a strong restraint on the most abandoned , in their career of vice . Whoever undertakes to write the life of any person , deserving to be remembered by posterity , ought to look upon this law as prescribed to him . He is ...
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... virtue , private or public , to atone for them : an open scoffer at the obligations of morality , insolent , rapacious , sanguinary , hated by , and hating , all good men . The honester part of the nobility often remonstrated against ...
... virtue , private or public , to atone for them : an open scoffer at the obligations of morality , insolent , rapacious , sanguinary , hated by , and hating , all good men . The honester part of the nobility often remonstrated against ...
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... virtue and human nature . Some of those gentlemen have acted at the bar as if they thought themselves , by the duty of their places , absolved from all the obligations of truth , honour , and decency . But their names are upon record ...
... virtue and human nature . Some of those gentlemen have acted at the bar as if they thought themselves , by the duty of their places , absolved from all the obligations of truth , honour , and decency . But their names are upon record ...
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... virtues that of a reasonable economy ? Had he done so , it had preserved him from one transcen- dent fault : and the other blemishes on his moral name had been lost in the brightness of his intellectual qualities . But he was remarkably ...
... virtues that of a reasonable economy ? Had he done so , it had preserved him from one transcen- dent fault : and the other blemishes on his moral name had been lost in the brightness of his intellectual qualities . But he was remarkably ...
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... virtue . Ed . 1691 . After a short confinement in the Tower , the king restored him to his liberty , and forgave the fine in which the parliament had amerced him . As this fine was very considerable , he managed so as to have it ...
... virtue . Ed . 1691 . After a short confinement in the Tower , the king restored him to his liberty , and forgave the fine in which the parliament had amerced him . As this fine was very considerable , he managed so as to have it ...
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