Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... office , of Proverbs . ' Considering that Proverbs have been current in all ages and 1 There is appended to Prof. Sullivan's Spelling - book superseded , a collection ( which is also published separate ) of PROVERBS for Copy - lines ...
... office , of Proverbs . ' Considering that Proverbs have been current in all ages and 1 There is appended to Prof. Sullivan's Spelling - book superseded , a collection ( which is also published separate ) of PROVERBS for Copy - lines ...
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... office of a true teacher to show us that God is , not was - that He speaketh , not spoke . The true Christianity - a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of Man - is lost . None believeth in the soul of Man , but only in some man or ...
... office of a true teacher to show us that God is , not was - that He speaketh , not spoke . The true Christianity - a faith like Christ's in the infinitude of Man - is lost . None believeth in the soul of Man , but only in some man or ...
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... office was not that of the razor , but the hone , ' acutum reddere quæ ferrum valet , exsors ipsa secandi . ' The poet Cowley accordingly has beautifully compared Bacon to Moses , ' Who did upon the very border stand Of that fair ...
... office was not that of the razor , but the hone , ' acutum reddere quæ ferrum valet , exsors ipsa secandi . ' The poet Cowley accordingly has beautifully compared Bacon to Moses , ' Who did upon the very border stand Of that fair ...
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... office , and of whose intel- ligence he thought more favourably than of his uprightness , - ' depend on it , he will never take any step that is bad , without having a very good reason to give for it . ' Now it is common to warn men ...
... office , and of whose intel- ligence he thought more favourably than of his uprightness , - ' depend on it , he will never take any step that is bad , without having a very good reason to give for it . ' Now it is common to warn men ...
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... office and place in the main- tenance of religion ; but we may not take up the third sword , which is Mahomet's sword , or like unto it - that is , to propagate religion by wars , or by sanguinary persecutions to force con- sciences ...
... office and place in the main- tenance of religion ; but we may not take up the third sword , which is Mahomet's sword , or like unto it - that is , to propagate religion by wars , or by sanguinary persecutions to force con- sciences ...
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