The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 11Hurd and Houghton, 1869 |
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... passing , may be seen laid up in 1849 as dead and dry as mummies . In so far as it is a ques- tion of taste , Bacon's history , tried by such a standard , must of course fail . It is not however to a difference of taste merely , that ...
... passing , may be seen laid up in 1849 as dead and dry as mummies . In so far as it is a ques- tion of taste , Bacon's history , tried by such a standard , must of course fail . It is not however to a difference of taste merely , that ...
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... passed over , and the authority too respectable to be overruled without show- ing reasons , I shall quote his note at length . " Lord Bacon was the man of highest intellect among the writers of history ; but he was not the greatest ...
... passed over , and the authority too respectable to be overruled without show- ing reasons , I shall quote his note at length . " Lord Bacon was the man of highest intellect among the writers of history ; but he was not the greatest ...
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... passed his sixtietn year , and was galled by unhonoured poverty . What wonder if in these circumstances even his genius sunk under such a patron and such a theme ! " 1 1 Lardner's Cyclopædia , Hist . of England , vol . ii . p . 362 ...
... passed his sixtietn year , and was galled by unhonoured poverty . What wonder if in these circumstances even his genius sunk under such a patron and such a theme ! " 1 1 Lardner's Cyclopædia , Hist . of England , vol . ii . p . 362 ...
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... passed and left no trace . The story of Perkin War- beck has the interest only of a great romance . The laws did indeed print their footsteps deeper ; but the progress of knowledge and the changes of time have gone over them too , and ...
... passed and left no trace . The story of Perkin War- beck has the interest only of a great romance . The laws did indeed print their footsteps deeper ; but the progress of knowledge and the changes of time have gone over them too , and ...
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... Passing from the particular to the general question , there is no doubt a real and considerable difference between Bacon's conception of the proper office of his- tory and Mackintosh's . According to Bacon , " it is the true office of ...
... Passing from the particular to the general question , there is no doubt a real and considerable difference between Bacon's conception of the proper office of his- tory and Mackintosh's . According to Bacon , " it is the true office of ...
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