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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ... - Page 39
by Francis Bacon - 1826
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Thought and Expression in the Sixteenth Century, Volume 2

Henry Osborn Taylor - 2006 - 444 pages
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The Philosopher in Early Modern Europe: The Nature of a Contested Identity

Conal Condren, Stephen Gaukroger, Ian Hunter - 2006 - 242 pages
...primarily to do with contemplation that is removed from action and production: 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a...
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Wisdom Or Knowledge?: Science, Theology and Cultural Dynamics

Willem B. Drees, Hubert Meisinger, Zbigniew Liana - 2006 - 182 pages
...Aristotle, Melanchthon's was the 'unmethodical' theology of the Anabaptists. 'as if there were to be sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect . . . and not a...
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Introduction to Science

J. Arthur Thomson - 2007 - 260 pages
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My Novel Volume 1 to 4

Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, Baron, Edward Bulwer Lytton - 2007 - 368 pages
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The Jewel House: Elizabethan London and the Scientific Revolution

Deborah E. Harkness - 2007 - 396 pages
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Conversations at Cambridge

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 2008 - 304 pages
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