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Page 10
This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give onely this Advice , according to my small Modell . Men ought to take heede ...
This is a Thing , may seeme to many , a Matter triviall , and done already : But if it
were done lesse partially , it would be embraced more generally . Of this I may
give onely this Advice , according to my small Modell . Men ought to take heede ...
Page 66
The Contemplative Atheist is rare ; A Diagoras , a Bion , a Lucian perhaps , and
some others ; And yet they seeme to be more then they are ; For that , all that
Impugne a received Religion , or Superstition , are by the adverse Part , branded
with ...
The Contemplative Atheist is rare ; A Diagoras , a Bion , a Lucian perhaps , and
some others ; And yet they seeme to be more then they are ; For that , all that
Impugne a received Religion , or Superstition , are by the adverse Part , branded
with ...
Page 87
A long Table , and a square Table , or Seats about the Walls , seeme Things of
Forme , but are Things of Substance ; For at a long Table , a few at the upper end
, in effect , sway all the Businesse ; But in the other Forme Of Counsell 87.
A long Table , and a square Table , or Seats about the Walls , seeme Things of
Forme , but are Things of Substance ; For at a long Table , a few at the upper end
, in effect , sway all the Businesse ; But in the other Forme Of Counsell 87.
Page 89
Dangers are no more light , if they once seeme light : And more dangers have
deceived Men , then forced them . Nay , it were better , to meet some Dangers
halfe way , though they come nothing neare , then to keepe too long a watch ,
upon ...
Dangers are no more light , if they once seeme light : And more dangers have
deceived Men , then forced them . Nay , it were better , to meet some Dangers
halfe way , though they come nothing neare , then to keepe too long a watch ,
upon ...
Page 101
It is the Care of Some , onely to come off speedily , for the time ; Or to contrive
some false Periods of Businesse , because they may seeme Men of Dispatch .
But it is one Thing , to Abbreviate by Contracting , Another by Cutting off : And ...
It is the Care of Some , onely to come off speedily , for the time ; Or to contrive
some false Periods of Businesse , because they may seeme Men of Dispatch .
But it is one Thing , to Abbreviate by Contracting , Another by Cutting off : And ...
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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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