The Essays, Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral: And Wisdom of the Ancients of Francis, Lord Verulam |
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... common but erro- neous supposition , that knowledge and the con- formity of the will , knowing and acting , are con- vertible terms . - Of this error he , in his Essay of " Custom and Education , " admonishes his readers , by saying ...
... common but erro- neous supposition , that knowledge and the con- formity of the will , knowing and acting , are con- vertible terms . - Of this error he , in his Essay of " Custom and Education , " admonishes his readers , by saying ...
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... common places , he strikes out a new tract for himself , and enters into the most secret recesses of this wild and shadowy region , so as to appear new on a known and beaten subject . Upon the whole , if we can- not bring ourselves ...
... common places , he strikes out a new tract for himself , and enters into the most secret recesses of this wild and shadowy region , so as to appear new on a known and beaten subject . Upon the whole , if we can- not bring ourselves ...
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... common people ; let that be left unto the anabaptists , and other furies . It was great blasphemy , when the devil said , " I will ascend and be like the Highest ; " but it is greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him in saying ...
... common people ; let that be left unto the anabaptists , and other furies . It was great blasphemy , when the devil said , " I will ascend and be like the Highest ; " but it is greater blasphemy to personate God , and bring him in saying ...
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... common to beasts ; but memory , merit , and noble works , are proper to men and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foun- dations have proceeded from childless men , which have sought to express the images of their minds ...
... common to beasts ; but memory , merit , and noble works , are proper to men and surely a man shall see the noblest works and foun- dations have proceeded from childless men , which have sought to express the images of their minds ...
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... common benefits are to be communicate with all , but peculiar benefits with choice . And beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern : for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern : the love of our neigh ...
... common benefits are to be communicate with all , but peculiar benefits with choice . And beware how in making the portraiture thou breakest the pattern : for divinity maketh the love of ourselves the pattern : the love of our neigh ...
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