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Page xviii
... kind of juggler , that had a pair of cards , and would tell a man what card he thought . This pretended learned man told me , that it was a mistaking in me ; for , said he , it was not the knowledge of man's thought , ( for that is ...
... kind of juggler , that had a pair of cards , and would tell a man what card he thought . This pretended learned man told me , that it was a mistaking in me ; for , said he , it was not the knowledge of man's thought , ( for that is ...
Page xxx
... kind of necessity and author- ity ; and I well remember , when by violent courses at any time he had got his will , he would ask me : Now , sir , whose principles be true ? And I would again say to him : My lord , these courses be like ...
... kind of necessity and author- ity ; and I well remember , when by violent courses at any time he had got his will , he would ask me : Now , sir , whose principles be true ? And I would again say to him : My lord , these courses be like ...
Page xxxi
... kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly . And therefore if you would imponer ? bonam clausulam , and send for him , and satisfy him with honour near you , if your affairs , which ( as I have said ) I am not acquainted ...
... kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly . And therefore if you would imponer ? bonam clausulam , and send for him , and satisfy him with honour near you , if your affairs , which ( as I have said ) I am not acquainted ...
Page xli
... kind the particulars were exceeding many ; whereof , for an example , I will remember to your lordship one or two . As at one time , I call to mind , her majesty was speaking of a fellow that undertook to cure , or at least to ease my ...
... kind the particulars were exceeding many ; whereof , for an example , I will remember to your lordship one or two . As at one time , I call to mind , her majesty was speaking of a fellow that undertook to cure , or at least to ease my ...
Page lxxix
... kind . Upon the destruction of these idols , Bacon is unceasing in his exhortations . " They must , " he says , " by the lover of truth be solemnly and forever renounced , that the understanding may be purged and cleansed ; for the ...
... kind . Upon the destruction of these idols , Bacon is unceasing in his exhortations . " They must , " he says , " by the lover of truth be solemnly and forever renounced , that the understanding may be purged and cleansed ; for the ...
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