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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... reason to expect , that , on assurance of his entering heartily into a war , they would vote him considerable aids of money ; which he might afterwards divert , as he ac- tually did , to other purposes that better suited his genius and ...
... reason to expect , that , on assurance of his entering heartily into a war , they would vote him considerable aids of money ; which he might afterwards divert , as he ac- tually did , to other purposes that better suited his genius and ...
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... reason there was to admire him . In this 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 ...
... reason there was to admire him . In this 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 ...
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... reason , seems to have been well - nigh extinguished . It was not till late , after the sack of Constantinople An . 1453 . by the Turks , that the writings of Aristotle began to be universally known and studied . They were then , by ...
... reason , seems to have been well - nigh extinguished . It was not till late , after the sack of Constantinople An . 1453 . by the Turks , that the writings of Aristotle began to be universally known and studied . They were then , by ...
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... reason , mankind in all their controversies , whether about a notion or a thing , a predicament or a province , have made their last appeal to brute force and violence . The titles * with which these leaders were honoured by their fol ...
... reason , mankind in all their controversies , whether about a notion or a thing , a predicament or a province , have made their last appeal to brute force and violence . The titles * with which these leaders were honoured by their fol ...
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... reason , which to pull up or remove would be daring and impious . Inno- vations in philosophy , it was imagined , would gra- dually sap the very foundations of religion , and in the end lead to downright atheism . If that veil of awful ...
... reason , which to pull up or remove would be daring and impious . Inno- vations in philosophy , it was imagined , would gra- dually sap the very foundations of religion , and in the end lead to downright atheism . If that veil of awful ...
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