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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... Inquiry or Invention . 2. The Art of Examina- tion . 3. The Art of Custody or Memory . 4. The Art of Elocution or Tradition , 131 , 132 Ethics divided into , 1. The Doctrine of the Image of Good . 2. The Georgics or Cultivation of the ...
... Inquiry or Invention . 2. The Art of Examina- tion . 3. The Art of Custody or Memory . 4. The Art of Elocution or Tradition , 131 , 132 Ethics divided into , 1. The Doctrine of the Image of Good . 2. The Georgics or Cultivation of the ...
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... inquiry , suf- fered him not to stop short at the study of languages , but led him higher , to remark accurately on the cus- toms and manners of those that spoke them ; on the characters of their princes , and on the constitution of ...
... inquiry , suf- fered him not to stop short at the study of languages , but led him higher , to remark accurately on the cus- toms and manners of those that spoke them ; on the characters of their princes , and on the constitution of ...
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... inquiry , he might have diverted the pub- lic odium from himself , by laying open the long series of bad administration to which he had been privy ; the many illegal patents he had been compelled to pass ; and all this came full home to ...
... inquiry , he might have diverted the pub- lic odium from himself , by laying open the long series of bad administration to which he had been privy ; the many illegal patents he had been compelled to pass ; and all this came full home to ...
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... inquiry ; a patience in doubting ; a slowness and diffidence in affirming ; a facility of retracting ; a careful anxiety to plan and dispose . A mind of such a cast , that neither affected novelty , nor idolized antiquity , that was an ...
... inquiry ; a patience in doubting ; a slowness and diffidence in affirming ; a facility of retracting ; a careful anxiety to plan and dispose . A mind of such a cast , that neither affected novelty , nor idolized antiquity , that was an ...
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... inquiry . As it differs from the vulgar logic in its aim , it varies no less from that captious art in the form of demonstrating : for it generally rejects syllo- gism , as an instrument rather hurtful than service- able to the ...
... inquiry . As it differs from the vulgar logic in its aim , it varies no less from that captious art in the form of demonstrating : for it generally rejects syllo- gism , as an instrument rather hurtful than service- able to the ...
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