The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... errors of her father and her sister , that she could expect to reign with security , only by deserving the confidence and gaining the love of the nation : and that in order thereto , she must propose to herself no other end of ruling ...
... errors of her father and her sister , that she could expect to reign with security , only by deserving the confidence and gaining the love of the nation : and that in order thereto , she must propose to herself no other end of ruling ...
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... errors and imperfections of our know- ledge , he led mankind into the only right way of sup- plying the one , and reforming the other : he taught them to know their wants . He even went farther , and himself pointed out to them the ...
... errors and imperfections of our know- ledge , he led mankind into the only right way of sup- plying the one , and reforming the other : he taught them to know their wants . He even went farther , and himself pointed out to them the ...
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... errors ; and I on the " other part seem to punish him in the spirit of re- 66 venge . Somerset was not to be tried for any offence against the king ; but for the barbarous mur- der of a private man and his friend . What then means the ...
... errors ; and I on the " other part seem to punish him in the spirit of re- 66 venge . Somerset was not to be tried for any offence against the king ; but for the barbarous mur- der of a private man and his friend . What then means the ...
Page xxxvi
... error to error : till in the end he made him sacrifice his conscience to the pope , and his honour to the resentments of Philip , in the murder of his bravest subject Sir Walter Raleigh ; the last terror of Spain , and the only ...
... error to error : till in the end he made him sacrifice his conscience to the pope , and his honour to the resentments of Philip , in the murder of his bravest subject Sir Walter Raleigh ; the last terror of Spain , and the only ...
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... error or negligence in their master's service , but merely for an opinion given in a thing that only regarded his own family . In- deed such was the levity , such the insolence of his power , that the capricious removal of men from ...
... error or negligence in their master's service , but merely for an opinion given in a thing that only regarded his own family . In- deed such was the levity , such the insolence of his power , that the capricious removal of men from ...
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