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New Elegant Extracts: A Unique Selection, Moral, Instructive, and ... - Page 153
by Richard Alfred Davenport - 1827
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Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...are of the same veins, 8 though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which...when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts ; 9 that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which...truth ; nor again, that, when it is found, it imposeth 3 upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie...
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Masterpieces in English Literature, & Lessons in the English Language...

Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 pages
...so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labor which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again,...imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies in favor ; but a natural, though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later schools of the Grecians...
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Readings in English literature, prose

English literature - 1874 - 274 pages
...which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in the finding out of truth, nor again that, when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth...
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Engelske forfattere i udvalg. med biografiske indeldminger og oplysende ...

Jakob Olaus Løkke - 1875 - 556 pages
...which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in the finding out of truth; nor again, that when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth...
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Cassell's library of English literature, selected, ed ..., Volume 3; Volume 79

Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them, as was in those of the ancients. school of the Grecians, examineth the matter, and is at a stand, to think what should be in it, that...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...are of the same veins ; though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out of truth — nor, agairj, that, when it is found, it imposeth upon 10 men's thoughts — that doth bring lies in favour...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...the hazard of losing much more than it was possible for him to gain. ADDISON : Spectator, No. 507. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which men take in finding out the truth ; nor, again, that, when it is found, it imposeth upon men's thoughts, that doth bring lies...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...which are of the same veins, though there be not so much blood in them as was in those of the ancients. But it is not only the difficulty and labour which...it imposeth upon men's thoughts ; that doth bring lyes in favour : but a natural though corrupt love of the lye itself. One of the later school of the...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1877 - 1014 pages
...was in those of the an- , \,,' cients. ; But it is not only the difficulty and labour " r.^j V * -' which men take in finding out of truth ; nor again...when it is found it imposeth upon men's thoughts; 8 that doth bring lies in favour; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself. One of the later...
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