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" My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy... "
The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition: - Page cdxxvii
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834
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Letters of S[i]r Francis Bacon ... Written During the Reign of King James ...

Francis Bacon - 1702 - 408 pages
...Strength,for Greatnefshe could " not want. Neither could I condole in a word or fyllable " for him y as knowing no accident could do harm to Virtue, " but rather help to make it Manifejt. After, Mr. Osborn, in the fecond Part of his Advice, to his Son, hath recommended an Univerfal...
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The British Plutarch, Or Biographical Entertainer: Being a Select Collection ...

1762 - 414 pages
...give him ftrength, for greatnefs he could not want , neither could I condole in a word or fyllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifeft." Archbifhop Archbifhop Williams, to whofc care the vifcount St. Albans, committed his orations...
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Sir Philip Sydney's Defense of Poetry: And Observations on Poetry and ...

Sir Philip Sidney - 1787 - 158 pages
...ftrength } for Greatnefs he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or fyllable for him i as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, .but rather help to make it manifeft. There cannot be one colour of the mind, another of the wit. If the mind be flaid, grave,...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 8

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 482 pages
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he i ouUI not want. Neither could I condole, in a word or syllable...to virtue ; but rather help to make it manifest." This, with the commentators' leave, is a very pretty specimen of " old Ben's flattery of kings," and...
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The Works of Ben Jonson...: With Notes Critical and Explanatory ..., Volume 9

Ben Jonson, William Gifford - 1816 - 464 pages
...greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for ' llorat. de Art. Poetic*. him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest. De Corruplela Morum. — There cannot be one colour of the mind, another of the wit. If the mind be...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

1821 - 398 pages
...emptiness, less idlenesse in what he uttered. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honours : but I have and do reverence...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over...
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Retrospective Review, Volume 3

Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1821 - 402 pages
...emptiness, less idtenesse in what he uttered. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honours : but I have and do reverence...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over...
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The Retrospective Review, Volume 3

1821 - 400 pages
...emptiness, less idlenesse in what he uttered. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place or honours : but I have and do reverence...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over...
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The Retrospective Review.., Volume 3

Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither eould I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over...
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Memoirs of the Court of King James the First, Volume 2

Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 434 pages
...reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration,...to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest*." Bacon appears to have fallen a victim to a rash exposure of himself to cold in the performance of a...
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