The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Carey and Hart, 1844 |
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Page viii
... better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments , which is nothing pleasant to hear , but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards : so have I been content to tune the instruments of ...
... better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments , which is nothing pleasant to hear , but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards : so have I been content to tune the instruments of ...
Page xxxix
... better than to have my name objected to envy , or my life to a ruffian's violence . But I have the privy coat of a good conscience . I am sure these courses and bruits hurt my lord more than all . So having written to your lord- ship ...
... better than to have my name objected to envy , or my life to a ruffian's violence . But I have the privy coat of a good conscience . I am sure these courses and bruits hurt my lord more than all . So having written to your lord- ship ...
Page xli
... better than mine own , tion of Bacon's philosophy , that " the honest and just bounds of observation by one person upon another , extend no further but to understand him sufficiently , whereby not to give him offence ; or whereby to be ...
... better than mine own , tion of Bacon's philosophy , that " the honest and just bounds of observation by one person upon another , extend no further but to understand him sufficiently , whereby not to give him offence ; or whereby to be ...
Page xlv
... better satisfaction of the world : which I did but so as never secretary had more particular and ex- press directions and instructions in every point , how to guide my hand in it : and not only so , but after that I had made a first ...
... better satisfaction of the world : which I did but so as never secretary had more particular and ex- press directions and instructions in every point , how to guide my hand in it : and not only so , but after that I had made a first ...
Page l
... better than a carcass , whereupon all the vultures and birds of prey of the world did seize and ravine for many ages ; as a perpetual monument of the essential differences between the scale of miles and the scale of forces : and that ...
... better than a carcass , whereupon all the vultures and birds of prey of the world did seize and ravine for many ages ; as a perpetual monument of the essential differences between the scale of miles and the scale of forces : and that ...
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