Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... learning to write . To me , both these opinions appear erroneous . ' That Proverbs are not generally regarded , by those who use them , as , necessarily , propositions of universal and acknow- ledged truth , like mathematical axioms ...
... learning to write . To me , both these opinions appear erroneous . ' That Proverbs are not generally regarded , by those who use them , as , necessarily , propositions of universal and acknow- ledged truth , like mathematical axioms ...
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... learning and ability needs to be carefully on his guard against being misled by his own . Though conscious , perhaps , of his own power to dress up spe- ciously a bad cause , or an extravagant and fanciful theory , he is conscious also ...
... learning and ability needs to be carefully on his guard against being misled by his own . Though conscious , perhaps , of his own power to dress up spe- ciously a bad cause , or an extravagant and fanciful theory , he is conscious also ...
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... learning and ability on the side , whatever it may be , which they are predisposed to adopt . I shall merely enumerate a few of the most common of these feelings that present obstacles to the pursuit or propagation of truth : -Aversion ...
... learning and ability on the side , whatever it may be , which they are predisposed to adopt . I shall merely enumerate a few of the most common of these feelings that present obstacles to the pursuit or propagation of truth : -Aversion ...
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... learning , both christian and moral , as by their mercury rod to damn and send to hell . for ever , those facts and opinions tending to the support of the same , as hath been already in good part done . Surely in councils concerning ...
... learning , both christian and moral , as by their mercury rod to damn and send to hell . for ever , those facts and opinions tending to the support of the same , as hath been already in good part done . Surely in councils concerning ...
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... learning of some of the writers doubtless contributed to their success ; but their being known to have combined together ( ' conspired , ' is the term used by one of themselves ) for the propagation of certain doctrines agreed upon ...
... learning of some of the writers doubtless contributed to their success ; but their being known to have combined together ( ' conspired , ' is the term used by one of themselves ) for the propagation of certain doctrines agreed upon ...
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