Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... men's business and bosoms . ' 6 ' In the Pure and in the Physical Sciences , ' says an able writer in the Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician has to redemonstrate the ...
... men's business and bosoms . ' 6 ' In the Pure and in the Physical Sciences , ' says an able writer in the Edinburgh Review , ' each generation inherits the conquests made by its predecessors . No mathematician has to redemonstrate the ...
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... men take in finding out of truth ; nor again , that , when it is found , it imposeth3 upon men's thoughts ; that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the ...
... men take in finding out of truth ; nor again , that , when it is found , it imposeth3 upon men's thoughts ; that doth bring lies in favour ; but a natural , though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the ...
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... 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 poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing ...
... 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 poor shrunken things , full of melancholy and indisposition , and unpleasing ...
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... men - and they are generally ready enough to take the warning — against being thus misled by the ingenuity of another ... men's opinions furnishes a proof how many must be mistaken . any one , then , would guard against mistake , as far ...
... men - and they are generally ready enough to take the warning — against being thus misled by the ingenuity of another ... men's opinions furnishes a proof how many must be mistaken . any one , then , would guard against mistake , as far ...
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... men . ' Courage , liberality , activity , and other good qualities , are often highly prized by those who do not possess ... men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth , which is the love - making or ...
... men . ' Courage , liberality , activity , and other good qualities , are often highly prized by those who do not possess ... men's depraved judgments and affections , it teacheth that the inquiry of Truth , which is the love - making or ...
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