Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... better employed . ' It is pity , ' we sometimes hear it said , ' that such and such an author does not express in simple , intelligible , unaffected English such admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness ...
... better employed . ' It is pity , ' we sometimes hear it said , ' that such and such an author does not express in simple , intelligible , unaffected English such admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness ...
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... passages from other writers contain better illustrations than those here given , has only to edit the Essays himself with such extracts as he prefers . 1 Antony and Cleopatra , Act v . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH • CONTENTS . II . OF xxii PREFACE .
... passages from other writers contain better illustrations than those here given , has only to edit the Essays himself with such extracts as he prefers . 1 Antony and Cleopatra , Act v . ESSAY I. OF TRUTH • CONTENTS . II . OF xxii PREFACE .
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... better in the world from the honesty , frugality , and temperance which he may be practising from higher motives . And there is not even anything necessarily wrong in aiming at temporal advantages . But whoever is resolved on obtaining ...
... better in the world from the honesty , frugality , and temperance which he may be practising from higher motives . And there is not even anything necessarily wrong in aiming at temporal advantages . But whoever is resolved on obtaining ...
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... better Christians , but are merely matters of speculative curiosity . Paul is frequent and earnest in his exhortations to his converts to confine themselves to such studies as tend to the edification of the Church , —the increase of the ...
... better Christians , but are merely matters of speculative curiosity . Paul is frequent and earnest in his exhortations to his converts to confine themselves to such studies as tend to the edification of the Church , —the increase of the ...
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... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong , merely out of ill - nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or brier , which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
... better than me ? And if any man should do wrong , merely out of ill - nature , why , yet it is but like the thorn or brier , which prick and scratch , because they can do no other . The most tolerable sort of revenge is for those wrongs ...
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