Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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Page 28
... never pauses , never diminishes . True or false , one new thought , one new view succeeds another as fast as it is possible to exhibit them . Nor is this true only of the Essays , where the style is more formally aphoristic and ...
... never pauses , never diminishes . True or false , one new thought , one new view succeeds another as fast as it is possible to exhibit them . Nor is this true only of the Essays , where the style is more formally aphoristic and ...
Page 30
... never , or very rarely , appears forced or unnatural ; if it be the last that would occur to an ordinary thinker , it looks as if it were the first that had occurred to him . Much of this comes of the real originality of Bacon's manner ...
... never , or very rarely , appears forced or unnatural ; if it be the last that would occur to an ordinary thinker , it looks as if it were the first that had occurred to him . Much of this comes of the real originality of Bacon's manner ...
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... never - failing flow of thought of one kind or another , even singular sagacity and insight within a certain range , will be denied him by none ; but with all this the deepest penetration and widest compass of vision may still be ...
... never - failing flow of thought of one kind or another , even singular sagacity and insight within a certain range , will be denied him by none ; but with all this the deepest penetration and widest compass of vision may still be ...
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... never agree . And if it come so to pass , in that distance of judgment which is between man and man , shall we not think that God above , that knows the heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their con- tradictions ...
... never agree . And if it come so to pass , in that distance of judgment which is between man and man , shall we not think that God above , that knows the heart , doth not discern that frail men , in some of their con- tradictions ...
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... never do if she find him jealous . Wives are young men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer ...
... never do if she find him jealous . Wives are young men's mistresses , companions for middle age , and old men's nurses ; so as a man may have a quarrel to marry when he will . But yet he was reputed one of the wise men that made answer ...
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