Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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Page viii
... mind by some late writers both in England and America ; -a sort of Children of the Mist , ' who bring forward their speculations - often very silly , and not seldom very mis- chievous - under cover of the twilight . They have accustomed ...
... mind by some late writers both in England and America ; -a sort of Children of the Mist , ' who bring forward their speculations - often very silly , and not seldom very mis- chievous - under cover of the twilight . They have accustomed ...
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... mind that every one can easily take it in . An explanation that is perfectly clear , satisfactory , and simple , often causes the unre- flecting to forget that they had needed any explanation at all . And truths that are , in practice ...
... mind that every one can easily take it in . An explanation that is perfectly clear , satisfactory , and simple , often causes the unre- flecting to forget that they had needed any explanation at all . And truths that are , in practice ...
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... , unprofitable to one whose mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason PREFACE . xvii.
... , unprofitable to one whose mind has not been trained to read rightly the volume of nature , and of human transactions , spread before him . When complaints are made - often not altogether without reason PREFACE . xvii.
Page xix
... mind of a great general to form the plan of a campaign , and to direct aright the movements of great bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword ...
... mind of a great general to form the plan of a campaign , and to direct aright the movements of great bodies of troops : but the greatest general may perhaps fall far short of many a private soldier in the use of the musket or the sword ...
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... minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , 1 and the like , but it would ... mind , but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt such as we spake of before . But howsoever ...
... minds vain opinions , flattering hopes , false valuations , imaginations as one would , 1 and the like , but it would ... mind , but the lie that sinketh in and settleth in it that doth the hurt such as we spake of before . But howsoever ...
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