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... PARTICULAR HISTORIES · OF THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . BOOKS II.—VI. ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . · BOOK III . Book IV . Book V. BOOK VI . Page 249 265 275 283 · 336 372 - 405 438 TRANSLATIONS OF THE ...
... PARTICULAR HISTORIES · OF THE DIGNITY AND ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING . BOOKS II.—VI. ARGUMENTS OF THE SEVERAL CHAPTERS BOOK II . · BOOK III . Book IV . Book V. BOOK VI . Page 249 265 275 283 · 336 372 - 405 438 TRANSLATIONS OF THE ...
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... particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples ...
... particular subjects ; choosing such subjects as are at once the most noble in themselves among those under inquiry , and most different one from another ; that there may be an example in every kind . I do not speak of those examples ...
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... particular sciences and speculations , either because they fancy themselves the authors and inventors thereof , or because they have bestowed the greatest pains upon them and become most habituated to them . But men of this kind , if ...
... particular sciences and speculations , either because they fancy themselves the authors and inventors thereof , or because they have bestowed the greatest pains upon them and become most habituated to them . But men of this kind , if ...
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... particular ages , or out of the largeness or minuteness of the objects contemplated . And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule , -that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be ...
... particular ages , or out of the largeness or minuteness of the objects contemplated . And generally let every student of nature take this as a rule , -that whatever his mind seizes and dwells upon with peculiar satisfaction is to be ...
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... particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and general divisions of such systems I must say something ; something also touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something ...
... particular confutations would be of no avail , yet touching the sects and general divisions of such systems I must say something ; something also touching the external signs which show that they are unsound ; and finally something ...
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