The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1877 - English literature |
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... kind of argument I acknowledge to be best . For who is there with such clearness or confidence that he can take upon him to write skilfully and accurately of the proper and relative duty of every several vocation and place ? But ...
... kind of argument I acknowledge to be best . For who is there with such clearness or confidence that he can take upon him to write skilfully and accurately of the proper and relative duty of every several vocation and place ? But ...
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Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. In which kind it were inexcusable not to mention ( honoris causâ ) your Majesty's excellent book touching the duties of a king , a work richly compounded of many ...
Francis Bacon James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, Douglas Denon Heath. In which kind it were inexcusable not to mention ( honoris causâ ) your Majesty's excellent book touching the duties of a king , a work richly compounded of many ...
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... kind ; touching which , Jason of Thessaly used to say , " Some things must be done unjustly , Prov . xviii . 2 . 2 Virg . Æn . vi . 823 Infelix , utcumque ferent ea facta minores . Plutarch in Brut . 1 that many may be done justly ...
... kind ; touching which , Jason of Thessaly used to say , " Some things must be done unjustly , Prov . xviii . 2 . 2 Virg . Æn . vi . 823 Infelix , utcumque ferent ea facta minores . Plutarch in Brut . 1 that many may be done justly ...
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... kind virtue belongs , but also how it may be obtained ; for we wish both to be ac- quainted with the thing itself , and to gain possession of it ; wherein we shall not fully succeed , unless we know both the whence and the how . " In ...
... kind virtue belongs , but also how it may be obtained ; for we wish both to be ac- quainted with the thing itself , and to gain possession of it ; wherein we shall not fully succeed , unless we know both the whence and the how . " In ...
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... kind ; amongst which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters ; how , I say , to set affection against affection , and to use the aid of one to master another ; like hunters and fowlers who use to hunt beast with beast ...
... kind ; amongst which this last is of special use in moral and civil matters ; how , I say , to set affection against affection , and to use the aid of one to master another ; like hunters and fowlers who use to hunt beast with beast ...
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