Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... less emptiness , less idle- ness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough , or look aside from him , without loss . He commanded where he spoke , and had his judges ...
... less emptiness , less idle- ness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces . His hearers could not cough , or look aside from him , without loss . He commanded where he spoke , and had his judges ...
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... less pains and embracement , perhaps , yield more lustre and reputation to my name than those other which I have in hand . " From what has been stated it will be seen that the successive forms which the work assumed as published by the ...
... less pains and embracement , perhaps , yield more lustre and reputation to my name than those other which I have in hand . " From what has been stated it will be seen that the successive forms which the work assumed as published by the ...
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... less pointed and epigrammatic ; but the packing of the thoughts is nearly as close everywhere . Every word indicates å working , teeming mind . Much of what is said , indeed , may be merely ingenious ; some portion of the abundance may ...
... less pointed and epigrammatic ; but the packing of the thoughts is nearly as close everywhere . Every word indicates å working , teeming mind . Much of what is said , indeed , may be merely ingenious ; some portion of the abundance may ...
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... less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever trite , or a repeater of what has been said by others ; he cannot quote a verse of Scripture without giving it an interpretation of his own . And yet the peculiar view that he takes of ...
... less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever trite , or a repeater of what has been said by others ; he cannot quote a verse of Scripture without giving it an interpretation of his own . And yet the peculiar view that he takes of ...
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... corrupted and dissolved ; when many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb : for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it 32 BACON'S WORKS .
... corrupted and dissolved ; when many times death passeth with less pain than the torture of a limb : for the most vital parts are not the quickest of sense . And by him that spake only as a philosopher and natural man , it 32 BACON'S WORKS .
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