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The word is late , but the thing is auncient . ... And althoughe they handle those
things wherein both mens Lives and theire pens are most conversant yet ( What I
have attained , I knowe not ) but I have endeavoured to make them not vulgar ...
The word is late , but the thing is auncient . ... And althoughe they handle those
things wherein both mens Lives and theire pens are most conversant yet ( What I
have attained , I knowe not ) but I have endeavoured to make them not vulgar ...
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Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes , Vaine
Opinions , Flattering Hopes , False valuations , Imaginations as one would , and
the like ; but it would leave the Mindes , of a Number of Men , poore shrunken
Things ...
Doth any man doubt , that if there were taken out of Mens Mindes , Vaine
Opinions , Flattering Hopes , False valuations , Imaginations as one would , and
the like ; but it would leave the Mindes , of a Number of Men , poore shrunken
Things ...
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A man would die , though he were neither valiant , nor miserable , onely upon a
wearinesse to doe the same thing , so oft over and over . It is no lesse worthy to
observe , how little Alteration , in good Spirits , the Approaches of Death make ...
A man would die , though he were neither valiant , nor miserable , onely upon a
wearinesse to doe the same thing , so oft over and over . It is no lesse worthy to
observe , how little Alteration , in good Spirits , the Approaches of Death make ...
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It is but a light Thing , to be Vouched ... For indeed , every Sect of them , hath a
Divers Posture , or Cringe by themselves , which cannot but Move Derision , in
Worldlings , and Depraved Politickes , who are apt to contemne Holy Things .
It is but a light Thing , to be Vouched ... For indeed , every Sect of them , hath a
Divers Posture , or Cringe by themselves , which cannot but Move Derision , in
Worldlings , and Depraved Politickes , who are apt to contemne Holy Things .
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... divers colours ; whereupon he saith , In veste varietas sit , Scissura non sit ;
They be two Things , Unity , and Uniformity ... it is driven to an over - great Subtilty
, and Obscurity ; So that it becometh a Thing , rather Ingenious , then Substantiall
.
... divers colours ; whereupon he saith , In veste varietas sit , Scissura non sit ;
They be two Things , Unity , and Uniformity ... it is driven to an over - great Subtilty
, and Obscurity ; So that it becometh a Thing , rather Ingenious , then Substantiall
.
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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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