Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which has long since been universally admitted , Bacon rejects as a vulgar error ...
... dangers for themselves ; for , the ancient Romans prepared birdlime for catching birds from the misselto thus propagated . Now this account of the plant , which has long since been universally admitted , Bacon rejects as a vulgar error ...
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... danger , in parting with a long- admitted error , of abandoning , at the same time , some truth they have been ... danger in removing a mis- take ; the danger that those who have been long used to act rightly on erroneous principles may ...
... danger , in parting with a long- admitted error , of abandoning , at the same time , some truth they have been ... danger in removing a mis- take ; the danger that those who have been long used to act rightly on erroneous principles may ...
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... danger ; through fear that this would cause more workmen to offer themselves , and thus lower wages ! The case of ... dangers . But the dry - pointers have to encounter , not the risk , but the certainty , of an early and painful death ...
... danger ; through fear that this would cause more workmen to offer themselves , and thus lower wages ! The case of ... dangers . But the dry - pointers have to encounter , not the risk , but the certainty , of an early and painful death ...
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... dangerous places and passages .'- Hall . ' All that fight against her and her munitions .'- Jer . xxix . 7 . . The arm our soldier , Our steed the leg , the tongue our trumpeter , With other muniments and petty helps .'- Shakespere ...
... dangerous places and passages .'- Hall . ' All that fight against her and her munitions .'- Jer . xxix . 7 . . The arm our soldier , Our steed the leg , the tongue our trumpeter , With other muniments and petty helps .'- Shakespere ...
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... dangers to which they would be exposed , even from false teachers amongst themselves , and of which he had been earnestly warn- ing them for three years , it is inconceivable that he should not have directed them to Peter or his ...
... dangers to which they would be exposed , even from false teachers amongst themselves , and of which he had been earnestly warn- ing them for three years , it is inconceivable that he should not have directed them to Peter or his ...
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