The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1Parry & McMillan, 1854 |
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... Passing beyond it , every thing is to be found which imagination can conceive or reason suggest . This entrance to ... pass divers inequalities , and ( as it were ) orbs , progresses , and returns , whereby we may produce admirable ...
... Passing beyond it , every thing is to be found which imagination can conceive or reason suggest . This entrance to ... pass divers inequalities , and ( as it were ) orbs , progresses , and returns , whereby we may produce admirable ...
Page xxv
... pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly , more weight- ily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces . His ...
... pass by a jest , was nobly censorious . No man ever spake more neatly , more pressly , more weight- ily , or suffered less emptiness , less idleness in what he uttered : no member of his speech but consisted of its own graces . His ...
Page xxix
... pass the whole field of science , as very much to In the year 1599 , the celebrated case of Per - detach him from his professional studies ? " petuities , which had been argued many times at the bar of the King's Bench , was , on ...
... pass the whole field of science , as very much to In the year 1599 , the celebrated case of Per - detach him from his professional studies ? " petuities , which had been argued many times at the bar of the King's Bench , was , on ...
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... pass with the furnace , she should be more favourable to the profession of alchymy . " Bacon , who was too wise to cross Elizabeth in the spring - tide of her anger , without waiting till 1 Sydney Papers , p . 204. Her majesty is ...
... pass with the furnace , she should be more favourable to the profession of alchymy . " Bacon , who was too wise to cross Elizabeth in the spring - tide of her anger , without waiting till 1 Sydney Papers , p . 204. Her majesty is ...
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... pass of its nest , it will mew them soon after ; " and , in this spirit , he records various maxims to counteract the debasement of character attendant upon the worship of gold : and , above all , the evil of sedentary and within - door ...
... pass of its nest , it will mew them soon after ; " and , in this spirit , he records various maxims to counteract the debasement of character attendant upon the worship of gold : and , above all , the evil of sedentary and within - door ...
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