... (a hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and serene), and to see the errors, and wanderings, and mists, and tempests, in the vale below :'' so always that this prospect be with pity, and not with swelling or pride. Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr - Page 2by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874Full view - About this book
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