Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1C. Knight & Company, 1846 |
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... pass by a jest , was nobly censorious [ censor- like ] . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idle- ness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his ...
... pass by a jest , was nobly censorious [ censor- like ] . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly , more weightily , or suffered less emptiness , less idle- ness , in what he uttered . No member of his speech but consisted of his ...
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... pass had been to adventure the wrong they might receive by untrue copies , or by some garnishment which it might please any that should set them forth to bestow upon them . " From this it may be inferred that , as was then common , they ...
... pass had been to adventure the wrong they might receive by untrue copies , or by some garnishment which it might please any that should set them forth to bestow upon them . " From this it may be inferred that , as was then common , they ...
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... pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is ...
... pass from theological and philosophical truth to the truth of civil business , it will be acknowledged , even by those that practise it not , that clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature , and that mixture of falsehood is ...
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... pass into common property , and cease to be recognisable as the thought of an indi- vidual . But it does not so happen . An original thought never loses its stamp of originality . If it has been struck out in an illiterate and ...
... pass into common property , and cease to be recognisable as the thought of an indi- vidual . But it does not so happen . An original thought never loses its stamp of originality . If it has been struck out in an illiterate and ...
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... passes on to the next . Yet the characteristic of his writing is pre - eminently wit , understood in the largest and highest sense , as the perception and exhibi- tion of things in their less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever ...
... passes on to the next . Yet the characteristic of his writing is pre - eminently wit , understood in the largest and highest sense , as the perception and exhibi- tion of things in their less obvious relations . Upon no topic is he ever ...
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