The Works of Francis Bacon: Translations of the philosophical worksLongmans, 1877 - English literature |
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... opinion a great light to those questions which followed ; and especially if they had consulted with the nature of things , as well as moral axioms , they had made their doctrines less prolix , and more profound ; which being by them in ...
... opinion a great light to those questions which followed ; and especially if they had consulted with the nature of things , as well as moral axioms , they had made their doctrines less prolix , and more profound ; which being by them in ...
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... opinion was revived in the heresy of the Anabaptists , who measured all things according to the notions or instincts of the spirit , and the constancy or wavering of belief . Now all the points above enumerated manifestly regard private ...
... opinion was revived in the heresy of the Anabaptists , who measured all things according to the notions or instincts of the spirit , and the constancy or wavering of belief . Now all the points above enumerated manifestly regard private ...
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... opinion seems ex- cellent , who commended that strength of mind which enabled a man not to abstain but to sustain , and which could refrain its impetuosity even in the steepest precipices , and give it the property of a well broken ...
... opinion seems ex- cellent , who commended that strength of mind which enabled a man not to abstain but to sustain , and which could refrain its impetuosity even in the steepest precipices , and give it the property of a well broken ...
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... opinions do not want their supports ; for the opinion of Socrates is much upheld by the general consent even of the Epicureans , who did not deny that virtue bears a great part in felicity ; and if so , certain it is , that virtue has ...
... opinions do not want their supports ; for the opinion of Socrates is much upheld by the general consent even of the Epicureans , who did not deny that virtue bears a great part in felicity ; and if so , certain it is , that virtue has ...
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... opinion one of the most sound and healthful writings that I have read ; not distempered in the heat of invention , nor chilled in the coldness of negli- gence ; not subject to fits of dizziness , and so falling into confusion and ...
... opinion one of the most sound and healthful writings that I have read ; not distempered in the heat of invention , nor chilled in the coldness of negli- gence ; not subject to fits of dizziness , and so falling into confusion and ...
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