Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, Volume 8Longman, 1862 |
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... writer . If his business lay among public men and mat- ters , it will afford likewise evidence of a very valuable kind as to the events of the time . If he was at the same time a man of un- derstanding and discernment , it will afford ...
... writer . If his business lay among public men and mat- ters , it will afford likewise evidence of a very valuable kind as to the events of the time . If he was at the same time a man of un- derstanding and discernment , it will afford ...
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... write FRANCISCUS BACONUS SIC COGITAVIT , -I suppose a more valu- able contribution to the history of the period could scarcely be offered . I have thought it expedient to include in the collection every writing of this class which I ...
... write FRANCISCUS BACONUS SIC COGITAVIT , -I suppose a more valu- able contribution to the history of the period could scarcely be offered . I have thought it expedient to include in the collection every writing of this class which I ...
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... writer . By this arrangement all confusion is avoided , except in a few cases of doubtful authorship . And for these , in addition to the full explanatory statement with which they are in each case in- troduced , I have made a special ...
... writer . By this arrangement all confusion is avoided , except in a few cases of doubtful authorship . And for these , in addition to the full explanatory statement with which they are in each case in- troduced , I have made a special ...
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... writer from whom I derive this information ) " extremely sick in those parts , and remaineth wonder- fully altered since I see him in France , and having through ill order ( as some say ) caused this change in himself , I think his time ...
... writer from whom I derive this information ) " extremely sick in those parts , and remaineth wonder- fully altered since I see him in France , and having through ill order ( as some say ) caused this change in himself , I think his time ...
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... writing , or the person written to , or both . But as mine are more intelligible , and were made with care and at leisure and when my eyes were better than they are now , I do not suspect any material error in them , and have not ...
... writing , or the person written to , or both . But as mine are more intelligible , and were made with care and at leisure and when my eyes were better than they are now , I do not suspect any material error in them , and have not ...
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