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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... truth of which the Jesuit . even an enemy bore testimony , while he reproached her with having translated , from the Latin , bishop Jewel's Apology for the Church of England . Such were the parents of Francis Bacon , whose life I am ...
... truth of which the Jesuit . even an enemy bore testimony , while he reproached her with having translated , from the Latin , bishop Jewel's Apology for the Church of England . Such were the parents of Francis Bacon , whose life I am ...
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... truth to truth , and from discovery to discovery ; the intelligent reader would doubtless have been pleased to see , in the tract I am speaking of , by what steps and gradations a spirit like Bacon's advanced in building up , for more ...
... truth to truth , and from discovery to discovery ; the intelligent reader would doubtless have been pleased to see , in the tract I am speaking of , by what steps and gradations a spirit like Bacon's advanced in building up , for more ...
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... Spain : that armada , which was boasted to be invincible , and was in truth a desperate effort of the whole power and resentment of her bitterest enemy . Her victory over him , viii The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
... Spain : that armada , which was boasted to be invincible , and was in truth a desperate effort of the whole power and resentment of her bitterest enemy . Her victory over him , viii The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
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... truth . But then he wanted those arts which are most necessary in a courtier ; and are indeed the only qualities which the rabble of courtiers value themselves upon ; circumspection , cunning , affec- tation of secrecy , with a servile ...
... truth . But then he wanted those arts which are most necessary in a courtier ; and are indeed the only qualities which the rabble of courtiers value themselves upon ; circumspection , cunning , affec- tation of secrecy , with a servile ...
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... truth , his inaperious humour , which he could seldom disguise , aided their designs ; for it often broke forth into downright abuse and scorn of those who thwarted his projects , or dissented from his opinions : and he once , in some ...
... truth , his inaperious humour , which he could seldom disguise , aided their designs ; for it often broke forth into downright abuse and scorn of those who thwarted his projects , or dissented from his opinions : and he once , in some ...
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