Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... manner as if he had seen it ; and in another work of his latter years , his Historia Vita et Mortis , he records a conversation he had had with a person whom he met when he was a young man at Poictiers . In the Sixth Book of the De ...
... manner as if he had seen it ; and in another work of his latter years , his Historia Vita et Mortis , he records a conversation he had had with a person whom he met when he was a young man at Poictiers . In the Sixth Book of the De ...
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... manner of speaking : - " My Lord Chancellor of England wringeth his speeches from the strings of his band , and other counsellors from the picking of their teeth . " - Conversations with Drummond , edited by Mr. D. Laing for Shakespeare ...
... manner of speaking : - " My Lord Chancellor of England wringeth his speeches from the strings of his band , and other counsellors from the picking of their teeth . " - Conversations with Drummond , edited by Mr. D. Laing for Shakespeare ...
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... manner of think- ing and writing by which it is marked . The first thing that will strike every reader is its fulness of matter . Jonson , as we have seen , has said of Bacon's speaking , that his hearers could not cough or look aside ...
... manner of think- ing and writing by which it is marked . The first thing that will strike every reader is its fulness of matter . Jonson , as we have seen , has said of Bacon's speaking , that his hearers could not cough or look aside ...
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... manner of thinking ; but the effect is also in part owing to his great oratorical skill or art of expression . The manner of his writing is as striking and uncommon as the matter . Or rather , we should say , the arraying and ap ...
... manner of thinking ; but the effect is also in part owing to his great oratorical skill or art of expression . The manner of his writing is as striking and uncommon as the matter . Or rather , we should say , the arraying and ap ...
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... manner of a mathematical demon- stration ; in moral questions that mode of reasoning is at once powerless and , for any continued effort , impossible . It may be accomplished by mere artifice of narration ; by the clear exhibition of ...
... manner of a mathematical demon- stration ; in moral questions that mode of reasoning is at once powerless and , for any continued effort , impossible . It may be accomplished by mere artifice of narration ; by the clear exhibition of ...
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