The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Carey and Hart, 1844 |
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... favour and countenance , which it ing his life to contemplation , it became necessary for him to select some pursuit for his support , " to think how to live , instead of living only to think . " 3 the highest degree of cipher , which ...
... favour and countenance , which it ing his life to contemplation , it became necessary for him to select some pursuit for his support , " to think how to live , instead of living only to think . " 3 the highest degree of cipher , which ...
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... favour unto me that , being hardly informed of me , you took occasion rather of good advice than of evil opinion thereby . And if your lordship had grounded only upon the said information of theirs , I might and would truly have ...
... favour unto me that , being hardly informed of me , you took occasion rather of good advice than of evil opinion thereby . And if your lordship had grounded only upon the said information of theirs , I might and would truly have ...
Page xxiv
... favour , and the impossibility that he who selected a course of life estimate only by the few , ' should be approved by the many . " He said this , not in anger , but in the consciousness of the dignity of his pursuits , and with the ...
... favour , and the impossibility that he who selected a course of life estimate only by the few , ' should be approved by the many . " He said this , not in anger , but in the consciousness of the dignity of his pursuits , and with the ...
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... favour to me , or strength for me , in procuring a short and speedy end . For though I know it will never be carried any other way , yet I hold both my friend and myself disgraced by this protraction . More I would write , but that I ...
... favour to me , or strength for me , in procuring a short and speedy end . For though I know it will never be carried any other way , yet I hold both my friend and myself disgraced by this protraction . More I would write , but that I ...
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... favour . Yet even in the Old Testament , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities ...
... favour . Yet even in the Old Testament , if you listen to David's harp , you shall hear as many hearse - like airs as carols ; and the pencil of the Holy Ghost hath laboured more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities ...
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