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Page xii
... pens are most conversant yet ( What I have attained , I knowe not ) but I have
endeavoured to make them not vulgar ; but of a nature , whereof a man shall find
much in experience , litle in bookes ; so as they are neither repeticons nor fansies
...
... pens are most conversant yet ( What I have attained , I knowe not ) but I have
endeavoured to make them not vulgar ; but of a nature , whereof a man shall find
much in experience , litle in bookes ; so as they are neither repeticons nor fansies
...
Page xxviii
xxviii The Epistle Dedicatorie Latine Volume of them , ( being in the Vniuersall
Language ) may last , as long as Bookes last . My Instauration , I dedicated to the
King : My Historie of HENRY the Seuenth , ( which I haue now also translated into
...
xxviii The Epistle Dedicatorie Latine Volume of them , ( being in the Vniuersall
Language ) may last , as long as Bookes last . My Instauration , I dedicated to the
King : My Historie of HENRY the Seuenth , ( which I haue now also translated into
...
Page 86
Therefore it is good to be conversant in them ; Specially the Bookes of such , as
Themselves have been Actors upon the Stage . The Counsels , at this Day , in
most Places , are but Familiar Meetings ; where Matters are rather talked 86 ...
Therefore it is good to be conversant in them ; Specially the Bookes of such , as
Themselves have been Actors upon the Stage . The Counsels , at this Day , in
most Places , are but Familiar Meetings ; where Matters are rather talked 86 ...
Page 91
... Persons , and another thing to understand Matters ; For many are perfect in
Mens Humours , that are not greatly Capable of the Reall Part of Businesse ;
Which is the Constitution of one , that hath studied Men , more then Bookes .
Such Men ...
... Persons , and another thing to understand Matters ; For many are perfect in
Mens Humours , that are not greatly Capable of the Reall Part of Businesse ;
Which is the Constitution of one , that hath studied Men , more then Bookes .
Such Men ...
Page 113
Reading good Bookes of Morality , is a little Flat , and Dead . Observing our
Faults in Others , is sometimes unproper for our Case . But the best Receipt ( best
( I say ) to worke , and best to take ) is the Admonition of a Frend . It is a strange
thing ...
Reading good Bookes of Morality , is a little Flat , and Dead . Observing our
Faults in Others , is sometimes unproper for our Case . But the best Receipt ( best
( I say ) to worke , and best to take ) is the Admonition of a Frend . It is a strange
thing ...
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil Golden treasury series |
| Author | Francis Bacon |
| Editor | William Aldis Wright |
| Publisher | Macmillan and Company, 1879 |
| Original from | University of Minnesota |
| Digitized | 26 Jun 2013 |
| Length | 388 pages |
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