Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... Edinburgh Review , 1851 ( p . 513 ) , the reviewer , though evidently disposed to regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that ' a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem ...
... Edinburgh Review , 1851 ( p . 513 ) , the reviewer , though evidently disposed to regard with some favour a style of dim and mystical sublimity , remarks , that ' a strange notion , which many have adopted of late years , is that a poem ...
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... Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician has to redemonstrate the problems of Euclid ; no physiologist has to sustain a controversy as to the circulation of the blood ; no ...
... Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician has to redemonstrate the problems of Euclid ; no physiologist has to sustain a controversy as to the circulation of the blood ; no ...
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... Edinburgh Review , and also of an article on this volume , in the North British ( Aug. 1857 , p . 6 ) , with whom I partly agree and partly not . This writer maintains ( 1 ) that all , or nearly all , the divisions that have existed ...
... Edinburgh Review , and also of an article on this volume , in the North British ( Aug. 1857 , p . 6 ) , with whom I partly agree and partly not . This writer maintains ( 1 ) that all , or nearly all , the divisions that have existed ...
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... Edinburgh Review for January , 1855 ( p . 91 ) , that ' purely speculative questions are precisely those which have been most furiously debated . They have created more hatred , more bloodshed , more wars , and more persecution than all ...
... Edinburgh Review for January , 1855 ( p . 91 ) , that ' purely speculative questions are precisely those which have been most furiously debated . They have created more hatred , more bloodshed , more wars , and more persecution than all ...
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... Edinburgh Review ) , Reverend and dear sirs , whom I unfeignedly love and respect , it doth not a little grieve my spirit to hear what sad things are reported daily of your tyranny and persecution in New England , as that you fine ...
... Edinburgh Review ) , Reverend and dear sirs , whom I unfeignedly love and respect , it doth not a little grieve my spirit to hear what sad things are reported daily of your tyranny and persecution in New England , as that you fine ...
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