Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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Francis Bacon. BRITISH MUSEUM LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . 1 ! PREFACE . AVING been accustomed to write down OF DEATH.
Francis Bacon. BRITISH MUSEUM LONDON : PRINTED BY WILLIAM CLOWES AND SONS , STAMFORD STREET AND CHARING CROSS . 1 ! PREFACE . AVING been accustomed to write down OF DEATH.
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Francis Bacon. 1 ! PREFACE . AVING been accustomed to write down , from time to time , such observations as occurred to me on several of Bacon's Essays , and also to make references to passages in various books which relate to the same ...
Francis Bacon. 1 ! PREFACE . AVING been accustomed to write down , from time to time , such observations as occurred to me on several of Bacon's Essays , and also to make references to passages in various books which relate to the same ...
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... accustomed to converse about : and by a ' slip- shod ' style , language simple , perspicuous , and homely , without any attempt at high - flown declamation . Now all this is pre- cisely what I have aimed at . Some passages indeed iv ...
... accustomed to converse about : and by a ' slip- shod ' style , language simple , perspicuous , and homely , without any attempt at high - flown declamation . Now all this is pre- cisely what I have aimed at . Some passages indeed iv ...
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... accustomed to speak as if Proverbs con- tained a sort of concentrated essence of the wisdom of all Ages , which will enable any one to judge and act aright on every emergency . Others , on the contrary , represent them as fit only to ...
... accustomed to speak as if Proverbs con- tained a sort of concentrated essence of the wisdom of all Ages , which will enable any one to judge and act aright on every emergency . Others , on the contrary , represent them as fit only to ...
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... accustomed their disciples to admire as a style sublimely philosophical , what may best be described as a certain haze of words imperfectly understood , through which some seemingly original ideas , scarcely distinguishable ' in their ...
... accustomed their disciples to admire as a style sublimely philosophical , what may best be described as a certain haze of words imperfectly understood , through which some seemingly original ideas , scarcely distinguishable ' in their ...
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