Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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Page viii
... confined his remark to poetry ; a similar taste prevails in reference to prose writers also . I have ventured , ' says the late Bishop Copleston ( in a letter published in the Memoir of him by his nephew ) , ' to give the whole class ...
... confined his remark to poetry ; a similar taste prevails in reference to prose writers also . I have ventured , ' says the late Bishop Copleston ( in a letter published in the Memoir of him by his nephew ) , ' to give the whole class ...
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... confined myself to the consideration that such a decision is beyond the province of a secular ruler ; instead of dilating , as some writers have done , on the impossibility of having any ruler whose judgment shall be infallible . That ...
... confined myself to the consideration that such a decision is beyond the province of a secular ruler ; instead of dilating , as some writers have done , on the impossibility of having any ruler whose judgment shall be infallible . That ...
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... confine themselves to such studies as tend to the edification of the Church , —the increase of the fruits of the Spirit , the conversion of infidels , —and the propagation of the essential doctrines of the Gospel . And these doctrines ...
... confine themselves to such studies as tend to the edification of the Church , —the increase of the fruits of the Spirit , the conversion of infidels , —and the propagation of the essential doctrines of the Gospel . And these doctrines ...
Page 53
... confined to its strict technical sense , and always employed in that sense . And the student , if asked what is a triangle , or a circle , what is hydrogen , or oxygen , —what is a muscle , what is a nerve , & c . is expected to be able ...
... confined to its strict technical sense , and always employed in that sense . And the student , if asked what is a triangle , or a circle , what is hydrogen , or oxygen , —what is a muscle , what is a nerve , & c . is expected to be able ...
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... confined . They live in the fields . As soon as you quit the city , you see in every clover field a group , of which the centre is a tethered buffalo , and round it are the children of its owner , with their provision of bread and water ...
... confined . They live in the fields . As soon as you quit the city , you see in every clover field a group , of which the centre is a tethered buffalo , and round it are the children of its owner , with their provision of bread and water ...
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