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... regards Bacon's own mind and times , but as regards his relation to English philosophy in general ...... This valuable essay has been translated by Mr. Oxenford in a clear and forcible and ( a quality not often found in translations ...
... regards Bacon's own mind and times , but as regards his relation to English philosophy in general ...... This valuable essay has been translated by Mr. Oxenford in a clear and forcible and ( a quality not often found in translations ...
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... regard to the translations which occupy the first half of this volume ( as far as p . 271. ) , I have nothing to add to what I have said ( Vol . I. p . xiv . ) in my general account of the edition . With regard to the rest , I then ...
... regard to the translations which occupy the first half of this volume ( as far as p . 271. ) , I have nothing to add to what I have said ( Vol . I. p . xiv . ) in my general account of the edition . With regard to the rest , I then ...
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... regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come into any man's mind . All the rest ...
... regard this work as a child of time rather than of wit ; the only wonder being that the first notion of the thing , and such great suspicions concern- ing matters long established , should have come into any man's mind . All the rest ...
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... regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is ...
... regard to the divine mysteries ; but rather that the understanding being thereby purified and purged of fancies and vanity , and yet not the less subject and entirely submissive to the divine oracles , may give to faith that which is ...
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... regard to those things which I shall mark as omitted , I intend not merely to set down a simple title or a concise argument of that which is wanted . For as often as I have occasion to report anything as deficient , the nature of which ...
... regard to those things which I shall mark as omitted , I intend not merely to set down a simple title or a concise argument of that which is wanted . For as often as I have occasion to report anything as deficient , the nature of which ...
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