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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... unto learning from learned men themselves , which com- monly cleaveth fastest : it is either from their fortune , or from their manners , or from the nature of their studies . For the first , it is not in their power ; and the second is ...
... unto learning from learned men themselves , which com- monly cleaveth fastest : it is either from their fortune , or from their manners , or from the nature of their studies . For the first , it is not in their power ; and the second is ...
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... unto the Athenians : " If it please you to note it , my counsels " unto you are not such , whereby I should grow great amongst you , and you become little amongst " the Grecians : but they be of that nature , as they " are sometimes not ...
... unto the Athenians : " If it please you to note it , my counsels " unto you are not such , whereby I should grow great amongst you , and you become little amongst " the Grecians : but they be of that nature , as they " are sometimes not ...
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... unto such as do fall under , or near unto , a popular ob- servation . There be therefore chiefly three vanities in studies , whereby learning hath been most traduced . For those things we do esteem vain , which are either false or ...
... unto such as do fall under , or near unto , a popular ob- servation . There be therefore chiefly three vanities in studies , whereby learning hath been most traduced . For those things we do esteem vain , which are either false or ...
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... unto that delicate and polished kind of learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone : and the echo answered in Greek , " Ove , Asine . Then grew the learning of the ...
... unto that delicate and polished kind of learning . Then did Erasmus take occasion to make the scoffing echo ; Decem annos consumpsi in legendo Cicerone : and the echo answered in Greek , " Ove , Asine . Then grew the learning of the ...
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... great quantity of matter , and infinite agita- tion of wit , spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning , which are extant in their books . For the wit and mind of man , if it work upon Book I. ] Of the Advancement of Learning . 29.
... great quantity of matter , and infinite agita- tion of wit , spin out unto us those laborious webs of learning , which are extant in their books . For the wit and mind of man , if it work upon Book I. ] Of the Advancement of Learning . 29.
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