Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, Volume 8Longman, 1862 |
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... less than a century after the first , and the whole authority of the Church passed for awhile into other hands . Had Bacon lived twenty years longer , he would have seen the overthrow of the establishment , of which , had he been born ...
... less than a century after the first , and the whole authority of the Church passed for awhile into other hands . Had Bacon lived twenty years longer , he would have seen the overthrow of the establishment , of which , had he been born ...
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... less extent opening on every side ; till at length , just about the age at which an intellect of quick growth begins to be conscious of original power , he was sent to the University , where he hoped to learn all that men knew . By the ...
... less extent opening on every side ; till at length , just about the age at which an intellect of quick growth begins to be conscious of original power , he was sent to the University , where he hoped to learn all that men knew . By the ...
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... less immediate urgency , and probably seemed to him of less ultimate importance ( for in the eyes of an old privy councillor the King of Spain might well appear to be a more dangerous enemy of the human race than Aristotle ) ; and being ...
... less immediate urgency , and probably seemed to him of less ultimate importance ( for in the eyes of an old privy councillor the King of Spain might well appear to be a more dangerous enemy of the human race than Aristotle ) ; and being ...
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... less time lost the better . The law was his most obvious and on many accounts his most promising resource ; and being already an ancient of Gray's Inn , he sate down at once to make himself a working lawyer . If the accidents should ...
... less time lost the better . The law was his most obvious and on many accounts his most promising resource ; and being already an ancient of Gray's Inn , he sate down at once to make himself a working lawyer . If the accidents should ...
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... less because we know nothing either of the per- son to whom it was addressed or the circumstances to which it alludes . It seems that Francis had reported to his brother something which he had heard about Doyly : that Doyly had written ...
... less because we know nothing either of the per- son to whom it was addressed or the circumstances to which it alludes . It seems that Francis had reported to his brother something which he had heard about Doyly : that Doyly had written ...
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