Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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... sometimes with pencil on canvas , sometimes with chisel on stone ; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite , his soul's worship is builded . . Man is the wonder- maker . He is seen amid miracles . The stationariness of re- ligion ...
... sometimes with pencil on canvas , sometimes with chisel on stone ; sometimes in towers and aisles of granite , his soul's worship is builded . . Man is the wonder- maker . He is seen amid miracles . The stationariness of re- ligion ...
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... sometimes hear it said , ' that such and such an author does not express in simple , intelligible , unaffected English such admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness and obscurity of the style that make ...
... sometimes hear it said , ' that such and such an author does not express in simple , intelligible , unaffected English such admirable matter as his . ' They little think that it is the strangeness and obscurity of the style that make ...
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... opinions are current ; and I have , in other works , sometimes assigned this as a reason for touching on those subjects . Hence , it has been inferred by more than one critic , that I must be at variance with the XX PREFACE .
... opinions are current ; and I have , in other works , sometimes assigned this as a reason for touching on those subjects . Hence , it has been inferred by more than one critic , that I must be at variance with the XX PREFACE .
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... sometimes grievously misunderstood , by many of his readers who were not so familiar as he had expected them to be , with his previous works , and with others which had been alluded to , but not cited . Cavillers , however - persons of ...
... sometimes grievously misunderstood , by many of his readers who were not so familiar as he had expected them to be , with his previous works , and with others which had been alluded to , but not cited . Cavillers , however - persons of ...
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... sometimes called indifference , or impartiality , i . . , of the judgment , does not imply an indifference of the will - an absence of all wish on either side , but merely an absence of all influence of the wishes in forming our ...
... sometimes called indifference , or impartiality , i . . , of the judgment , does not imply an indifference of the will - an absence of all wish on either side , but merely an absence of all influence of the wishes in forming our ...
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