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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... wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleas- ing conceits toward themselves ; or because it ad- vanceth any other their ends . So that , as it is said of untrue valours , that some mens valours are in the ...
... wherein they take pride , and so entertaineth them in good humour and pleas- ing conceits toward themselves ; or because it ad- vanceth any other their ends . So that , as it is said of untrue valours , that some mens valours are in the ...
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... wherein he offended ; for when he was past threescore years old , he was taken with án 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 án 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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... wherein my purpose is not to make a justification of the errors , but , by a censure and separation of the errors , to make a justi- fication of that which is good and sound , and to de- liver that from the aspersion of the other . For ...
... wherein my purpose is not to make a justification of the errors , but , by a censure and separation of the errors , to make a justi- fication of that which is good and sound , and to de- liver that from the aspersion of the other . For ...
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