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Page viii
Louing and beloued Brother , I doe nowe like some that haue an Orcharde ill
neighbored , that gather their fruit before it is ripe , to preuent stealing . These
fragments of my conceites were going to print ; To labour the staie of them had
bin ...
Louing and beloued Brother , I doe nowe like some that haue an Orcharde ill
neighbored , that gather their fruit before it is ripe , to preuent stealing . These
fragments of my conceites were going to print ; To labour the staie of them had
bin ...
Page ix
But since they would not stay with their Master , but would needes trauaile
abroade , I haue preferred them to you that are next my selfe , Dedicating them ,
such as they are , to our loue , in the depth whereof ( I assure you ) I sometimes
wish ...
But since they would not stay with their Master , but would needes trauaile
abroade , I haue preferred them to you that are next my selfe , Dedicating them ,
such as they are , to our loue , in the depth whereof ( I assure you ) I sometimes
wish ...
Page xxvii
For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted
Things , that are like to last . I doe now publish my Essayes ; which of all my other
workes , haue beene most Currant : For that , as it seemes , they come home , to
...
For your Fortune , and Merit both , haue beene Eminent . And you haue planted
Things , that are like to last . I doe now publish my Essayes ; which of all my other
workes , haue beene most Currant : For that , as it seemes , they come home , to
...
Page xxviii
My Instauration , I dedicated to the King : My Historie of HENRY the Seuenth , (
which I haue now also translated into Latine ) and my Portions of Naturall History
, to the Prince : And these I dedicate to your Grace ; Being of the best Fruits , that
...
My Instauration , I dedicated to the King : My Historie of HENRY the Seuenth , (
which I haue now also translated into Latine ) and my Portions of Naturall History
, to the Prince : And these I dedicate to your Grace ; Being of the best Fruits , that
...
Page 270
... he had neede haue much cunning to seeme to knowe that he doth not knowe :
Histories make men wise ; Poets witty : the Mathematiques subtile ; Naturall
Philosophie deepe : Morall grauę ; Logique , and Rethorique able to contende .
... he had neede haue much cunning to seeme to knowe that he doth not knowe :
Histories make men wise ; Poets witty : the Mathematiques subtile ; Naturall
Philosophie deepe : Morall grauę ; Logique , and Rethorique able to contende .
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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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