Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... better ex- ample than his own writings . In their entire form they fill many volumes ; they have been collected in three or four large folios , in five quartos , in a dozen or more octavos . Let the student of literature or philosophy ...
... better ex- ample than his own writings . In their entire form they fill many volumes ; they have been collected in three or four large folios , in five quartos , in a dozen or more octavos . Let the student of literature or philosophy ...
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... better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent , which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false ...
... better , but it embaseth it . For these winding and crooked courses are the goings of the serpent , which goeth basely upon the belly , and not upon the feet . There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false ...
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... better away ; but there , at any rate , it is , never - failing and seemingly inexhaustible , at the least the richest intermixture of wisdom , fancy , and ingenuity in suc- cession , often a combination and interfusion of all the three ...
... better away ; but there , at any rate , it is , never - failing and seemingly inexhaustible , at the least the richest intermixture of wisdom , fancy , and ingenuity in suc- cession , often a combination and interfusion of all the three ...
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... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn ' or briar , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . And here are the commencement and conclusion of * There ...
... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong merely out of ill nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn ' or briar , which prick and scratch because they can do no other . And here are the commencement and conclusion of * There ...
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... better and some to the worse : ' Omnium consensu , capax imperii , nisi imperasset , ' * saith Tacitus of Galba ; but of Vespasian he saith , Solus imperantium Vespa- sianus mutatus in melius : ' t though the one was meant of ...
... better and some to the worse : ' Omnium consensu , capax imperii , nisi imperasset , ' * saith Tacitus of Galba ; but of Vespasian he saith , Solus imperantium Vespa- sianus mutatus in melius : ' t though the one was meant of ...
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