The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1877 - English literature |
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... ancients have done their work admirably therein , yet so as the pious and earnest diligence of divines , which has been em- ployed in weighing and determining duties , moral virtues , cases of conscience , the bounds of sin , and the ...
... ancients have done their work admirably therein , yet so as the pious and earnest diligence of divines , which has been em- ployed in weighing and determining duties , moral virtues , cases of conscience , the bounds of sin , and the ...
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... ancient Romans in the best times were professors : for Cicero reports that a little before his age senators who had ... ancients ) , although it especially concerned an action then on foot , yet it contained many politic axioms which ...
... ancient Romans in the best times were professors : for Cicero reports that a little before his age senators who had ... ancients ) , although it especially concerned an action then on foot , yet it contained many politic axioms which ...
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... ancients , " that necessity was of all things the strongest . " " Wherefore we must meet the traveller on his way , but against the armed man we must fortify . PROVERB . ( 6. ) He that instructs a scorner gets to himself shame , and he ...
... ancients , " that necessity was of all things the strongest . " " Wherefore we must meet the traveller on his way , but against the armed man we must fortify . PROVERB . ( 6. ) He that instructs a scorner gets to himself shame , and he ...
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... ancients , that as men found out any observation which they thought good for life , they would gather it and express it in some short proverb , parable , or fable . Fables , as has been said elsewhere , were formerly substitutes and ...
... ancients , that as men found out any observation which they thought good for life , they would gather it and express it in some short proverb , parable , or fable . Fables , as has been said elsewhere , were formerly substitutes and ...
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... ancient times whose works and acts they revise . But the reverse of this happened in the work of Justinian . For it is an ... ancients are mutilated and reconstructed . But that is often necessary which is not best . So much then for ...
... ancient times whose works and acts they revise . But the reverse of this happened in the work of Justinian . For it is an ... ancients are mutilated and reconstructed . But that is often necessary which is not best . So much then for ...
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