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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... respect , we may apply to my lord Bacon what Tacitus finely observes of his father - in - law , Agricola : a good man you would readily have judged him to be , and been pleased to find him a great man . Osborn's Advice to a Son . Those ...
... respect , we may apply to my lord Bacon what Tacitus finely observes of his father - in - law , Agricola : a good man you would readily have judged him to be , and been pleased to find him a great man . Osborn's Advice to a Son . Those ...
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... respects , ought to be looked upon as extensive and valuable for that age , when the whole work was to be begun . This collection , which did not appear till after his death , has been generally considered as detached from , and ...
... respects , ought to be looked upon as extensive and valuable for that age , when the whole work was to be begun . This collection , which did not appear till after his death , has been generally considered as detached from , and ...
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... respect of scarcity of means , or in respect of privateness of life , and meanness of employments . Concerning want , and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little , and not to grow rich so fast as other men , by ...
... respect of scarcity of means , or in respect of privateness of life , and meanness of employments . Concerning want , and that it is the case of learned men usually to begin with little , and not to grow rich so fast as other men , by ...
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... respect of a man's self : but to be speculative into another man , to the end to know how to work him , or wind him , or govern him , pro- ceedeth from a heart that is double and cloven , and not entire and ingenuous ; which , as in ...
... respect of a man's self : but to be speculative into another man , to the end to know how to work him , or wind him , or govern him , pro- ceedeth from a heart that is double and cloven , and not entire and ingenuous ; which , as in ...
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... respects , was the most happy and flourishing that ever the Roman empire , which then was a model of the world , enjoyed ; a matter revealed and prefigured unto Domitian in a dream the night before he was slain ; for he thought there ...
... respects , was the most happy and flourishing that ever the Roman empire , which then was a model of the world , enjoyed ; a matter revealed and prefigured unto Domitian in a dream the night before he was slain ; for he thought there ...
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