Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... doth . . . . A true conversion , a true Christ , is now , as always , to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments . . . . The gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting , overpowering , excluding sanctity , but a sweet natural ...
... doth . . . . A true conversion , a true Christ , is now , as always , to be made by the reception of beautiful sentiments . . . . The gift of God to the soul is not a vaunting , overpowering , excluding sanctity , but a sweet natural ...
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... doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies , where ...
... doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies , where ...
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... doth ever add pleasure . Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , 1 and the like , but it would leave the minds of a number of men ...
... doth ever add pleasure . Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of men's minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , 1 and the like , but it would leave the minds of a number of men ...
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... doth so cover a man with shame , as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily , when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace , and such an odious charge , ' If it be well ...
... doth so cover a man with shame , as to be found false and perfidious ; and therefore Montaigne saith prettily , when he inquired the reason why the word of the lie should be such a disgrace , and such an odious charge , ' If it be well ...
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... doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it - the knowledge of Truth , which is the presence of ...
... doth judge itself , ' and , howsoever these things are in men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it - the knowledge of Truth , which is the presence of ...
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