Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... means read and inwardly digest every page of them ; but it would be the height of pedantry to recommend that anything like that should be done by all readers . Even if the entire body of Bacon's works could be produced at so small a ...
... means read and inwardly digest every page of them ; but it would be the height of pedantry to recommend that anything like that should be done by all readers . Even if the entire body of Bacon's works could be produced at so small a ...
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... means Burghley ] , who laboured by all industrious and secret means to suppress and keep him down ; lest , if he had risen , he might have obscured his glory . According to Mr. Collier ( Egerton Papers , p . 269 ) , " there is some ...
... means Burghley ] , who laboured by all industrious and secret means to suppress and keep him down ; lest , if he had risen , he might have obscured his glory . According to Mr. Collier ( Egerton Papers , p . 269 ) , " there is some ...
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... means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times , unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges . Some there are , who , though ...
... means have married and endowed the public . Yet it were great reason that those that have children should have greatest care of future times , unto which they know they must transmit their dearest pledges . Some there are , who , though ...
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... means are less exhaust , yet on the other side they are more cruel and hard hearted ( good to make severe inquisi- tors ) , because their tenderness is not so often called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant ...
... means are less exhaust , yet on the other side they are more cruel and hard hearted ( good to make severe inquisi- tors ) , because their tenderness is not so often called upon . Grave natures , led by custom , and therefore constant ...
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... means to exalt itself above human frailty . The Seventeenth Essay , also in the collection of 1612 , is entitled ' Of Superstition . ' Its leading idea is stated in the commencement : - It were better to have no opinion of God at all ...
... means to exalt itself above human frailty . The Seventeenth Essay , also in the collection of 1612 , is entitled ' Of Superstition . ' Its leading idea is stated in the commencement : - It were better to have no opinion of God at all ...
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