 | 1816 - 828 pages
...the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of hie subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a...perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and U only to be accounted... | |
 | 1816 - 802 pages
...; the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness ofhis subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a...perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...to the business of life. It may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, Bacon's Essays, ' after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before.' a 2 Dr. Wilkins, the editor of Seldeii's works, has attempted to discredit the... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...business of life : it may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, lord Bacon's Essays, " after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before." Dr. "Wilkins, the editor of Selden's works, has attempted to discredit the authenticity... | |
 | John Selden - 1821 - 170 pages
...business of life : it may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, lord Bacon's Essays, " after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before." Dr. Wilkins, the editor of Selden's works, has attempted to discredit the authenticity... | |
 | 1821 - 328 pages
...business of life : it may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, lord Bacon's Essays, " after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before." Dr. Wilkins, the editor of Selden's works, has attempted to discredit the authenticity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of the subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a...perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 pages
...the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of his subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a...perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. " This, indeed," adds the same elegant and judicious writer, " is a characteristic... | |
 | 1827 - 750 pages
...depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of his subject. It may he read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet,...perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. 'This, indeed,' adds the same elegant and judicious writer, 1 is a characteristic... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 510 pages
...the novelty and depth of his reflections often receiving a strong relief from the triteness of his subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a...perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted... | |
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It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible... 
