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" There is a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received... "
Essays, Moral, Economical, and Political - Page 89
by Francis Bacon - 1812 - 295 pages
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Essays: And Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in...
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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1884 - 722 pages
...with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing; for as it acldeth deformity to an ape to be so like a man, so the similitude...the superstition formerly received; therefore care would3 be had that (as it fareth in ill purgings) the good be not taken awciy with the bad, which commonly...
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The Reformation Settlement Examined in the Light of History and Law: With an ...

Malcolm MacColl - 1899 - 658 pages
...were not always careful to discriminate between the true and the false. ' There is,' as Bacon says, ' a superstition in avoiding superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; ' and Cranmer and his colleagues were not proof...
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The Essayes Or Counsels, Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo. Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 374 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters., Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received : therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in...
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for as it addeth deformity to...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received ; therefore care would be had that (as it fareth in...
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The Essayes Or, Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Bacon ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 376 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...superstition, when men think to do best if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received : therefore / care would be had that (as it fareth...
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The World's Best Essays, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Volume 1

David Josiah Brewer - 1900 - 476 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...superstition; when men think to do best, if they go furthest from the superstition formerly received: therefore care would be had, that, as it fareth in...
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The Essays: Or Counsels, Civil and Moral of Francis Bacon ... Ed., with an ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. 2 Superstition without a veil is a deformed thing; for as it addeth deformity to...wholesome meat corrupteth to little worms, so good forms 1 Compare Milton, Paradise Lost, viii.: — " How they will wield The mighty frame ; how build, unbuild,...
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The Essayes Or Counsels Civill and Morall of Francis Lo: Verulam, Viscount ...

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little Jworms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition...
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The Essays Or Covnsels Civill & Morall of Francis Bacon, Lo: Vervlam ...

Francis Pacon (viscount St. Albans) - 1900 - 442 pages
...lastly, barbarous times, especially joined with calamities and disasters. Superstition, without a veil, is a deformed thing ; for, as it addeth deformity...more deformed. And as wholesome meat corrupteth to little~worms, so good forms and orders corrupt into a number of petty observances. There is a superstition...
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