The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1Murphy, 1887 |
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... Plato's cave is an ex- man is misled . cellent emblem : for , certainly , if a man were con- tinued from his childhood to mature age in a grotto or dark and subterraneous cave , and then should come suddenly abroad , and should behold ...
... Plato's cave is an ex- man is misled . cellent emblem : for , certainly , if a man were con- tinued from his childhood to mature age in a grotto or dark and subterraneous cave , and then should come suddenly abroad , and should behold ...
Page lxxx
... Plato and others , watered and nourished . It was , that the world was one entire , perfect , living creature ; that the ebbing and flowing of the sea was the respiration of the world , drawing in water as breath , and putting it forth ...
... Plato and others , watered and nourished . It was , that the world was one entire , perfect , living creature ; that the ebbing and flowing of the sea was the respiration of the world , drawing in water as breath , and putting it forth ...
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... Plato could have said no more ; and , al- though he had the confidence to deny the adminis- tration he had not the power to deny the nature . The Indians of the west have names for their par- Ir were better to have no opinion of God at ...
... Plato could have said no more ; and , al- though he had the confidence to deny the adminis- tration he had not the power to deny the nature . The Indians of the west have names for their par- Ir were better to have no opinion of God at ...
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... Plato , in a true friend , to whom you may impart griefs , his Protagoras , bringeth in Prodicus in scorn , and maketh him make a speech that consisteth of dis- joys , fears , hopes , suspicions , counsels , and what- tinctions from the ...
... Plato , in a true friend , to whom you may impart griefs , his Protagoras , bringeth in Prodicus in scorn , and maketh him make a speech that consisteth of dis- joys , fears , hopes , suspicions , counsels , and what- tinctions from the ...
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... Plato's Timæus , and his Atlanticus , it might encourage one to turn it to a prediction . The third and last ( which is the great one ) is , that almost all of them , being infinite in number , have been impostures , and by idle and ...
... Plato's Timæus , and his Atlanticus , it might encourage one to turn it to a prediction . The third and last ( which is the great one ) is , that almost all of them , being infinite in number , have been impostures , and by idle and ...
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