Bacon's Essays: with annotations by Richard Whately. Sixth edition, revised and enlargedLongman & Company, 1864 - 620 pages |
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Page vii
... writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur.1 ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk and of incon ...
... writers of a completely opposite character ; those of a mystical , dim , half- intelligible kind of affected grandeur.1 ' It is well known what a reproach to our climate is the prevalence of fogs , and how much more of risk and of incon ...
Page viii
... 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 their disciples ...
... 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 their disciples ...
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... writers of them were called on to explain their meaning , as Mr. Bayes is , in The Rehearsal , they might perhaps confess as " 1 It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very many others of the same stamp , professes to be a ...
... writers of them were called on to explain their meaning , as Mr. Bayes is , in The Rehearsal , they might perhaps confess as " 1 It is worth observing that this writer , as well as very many others of the same stamp , professes to be a ...
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... Writers appear to have much more , and others , much less , originality than they really have . A man who , with a certain amount of ability , has a larger amount of self - conceit , and a still greater craving for admiration , will ...
... Writers appear to have much more , and others , much less , originality than they really have . A man who , with a certain amount of ability , has a larger amount of self - conceit , and a still greater craving for admiration , will ...
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... Writer of great originality . Those , again , of an opposite character , wishing more to convey instruction than to ... writing has its recommendations . Each will obtain , if there be a considerable amount of ability , some degree of ...
... Writer of great originality . Those , again , of an opposite character , wishing more to convey instruction than to ... writing has its recommendations . Each will obtain , if there be a considerable amount of ability , some degree of ...
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