The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 9Hurd and Houghton, 1872 |
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... especially from true history ; showing what is the ulti- mate and highest point which human nature has of itself attained in the several gifts of body and mind . What a wonderful thing , for example , is that which is told of Cæsar ...
... especially from true history ; showing what is the ulti- mate and highest point which human nature has of itself attained in the several gifts of body and mind . What a wonderful thing , for example , is that which is told of Cæsar ...
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... especially in attributing too much ( as I think ) to the choice of meats and too little to the quantity . More- over with regard to quantity itself they have argued like moral philosophers , too much praising the mean ; whereas both ...
... especially in attributing too much ( as I think ) to the choice of meats and too little to the quantity . More- over with regard to quantity itself they have argued like moral philosophers , too much praising the mean ; whereas both ...
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... ( especially considering how mineral medicines have , been so much lauded and extolled by the chemists , and that such medicines are safer applied outwardly than taken inwardly ) that no man has endeavoured to make an imitation by art of ...
... ( especially considering how mineral medicines have , been so much lauded and extolled by the chemists , and that such medicines are safer applied outwardly than taken inwardly ) that no man has endeavoured to make an imitation by art of ...
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... been made concern- ing the Form of Light ( especially as men have taken great pains about perspective ) may be considered an 1 Virg . Æn . iii . 39 . astonishing piece of negligence . For neither in per- spective THE FOURTH BOOK . 57.
... been made concern- ing the Form of Light ( especially as men have taken great pains about perspective ) may be considered an 1 Virg . Æn . iii . 39 . astonishing piece of negligence . For neither in per- spective THE FOURTH BOOK . 57.
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... especially to dwell any time upon them . For they used examples or particular instances but as serjeants or whifflers to drive back the crowd and make way for their opinions , and never called them into council from the first , for the ...
... especially to dwell any time upon them . For they used examples or particular instances but as serjeants or whifflers to drive back the crowd and make way for their opinions , and never called them into council from the first , for the ...
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