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Letters - Page 254
by Francis Bacon - 1850
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Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1880 - 196 pages
...are now most set to have those works which I have formerly published . . . well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will at one time or other play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...Henry VII.,' that of the ' Essays,' being rctractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modem languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pages
...Utbrar? FROM -*~ ' /'f /r, \ ; ' • ' /.' r"*-1'1 1 ; -/. r '' ' r'. ' z 3 2044 097 036 222 ' '' '» 15 and since I have lost much time with this age, I would...shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." " The essayist does not usually appear early in the literary history of a country," wrote a charming...
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Bacon's Essays and Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall...
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works

Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays (being retractate and made more perfect) well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modernlanguages mil at one time or other play the bank-rowtes* with books ; and since I have lost much...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works

Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays (being retractate and made more perfect) well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For tfiete modern languages will at one time or other play the bank-rotates ' with bookt ; and since I...
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Representative English Prose and Prose Writers

Theodore Whitefield Hunt - 1887 - 552 pages
...most set to have those works which I had formerly published (in English) well translated into Latin, for these modern languages, will at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God would give...
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The Great Cryptogram: Francis Bacon's Cipher in the So-called ..., Volume 2

Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 528 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or another, play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad,...
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Shakespeare Or Bacon?

Theodore Martin - 1888 - 90 pages
...language will, at one time or another," he wrote to Mr Tobie Matthews in June 1623, "play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I shall be glad, as God will give me leave, to recover it with posterity." Surely this is about the very...
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