Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2J.M. Dent, 1919 |
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... BACON JOHN BUNYAN • DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION ADDISON . SAMUEL JOHNSON MADAME D'ARBLAY BYRON · MONTGOMERY INDEX · · 38 73 • 119 187 · 225 • 237 • 290 399 · 411 · 453 V • 523 563 • 613 · 643 661 • . MACAULAY'S ESSAYS MACHIAVELLI ...
... BACON JOHN BUNYAN • DRAMATISTS OF THE RESTORATION ADDISON . SAMUEL JOHNSON MADAME D'ARBLAY BYRON · MONTGOMERY INDEX · · 38 73 • 119 187 · 225 • 237 • 290 399 · 411 · 453 V • 523 563 • 613 · 643 661 • . MACAULAY'S ESSAYS MACHIAVELLI ...
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... Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many passages ...
... Bacon seems to countenance , is that the treatise was merely a piece of grave irony , intended to warn nations against the arts of ambitious men . It would be easy to show that neither of these solutions is consistent with many passages ...
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... Bacon rejected the theory of Galileo with scorn ; for Bacon had not all the means of arriving at a sound conclusion which are within our reach , and which secure people who would not have been worthy to mend his pens from falling into ...
... Bacon rejected the theory of Galileo with scorn ; for Bacon had not all the means of arriving at a sound conclusion which are within our reach , and which secure people who would not have been worthy to mend his pens from falling into ...
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... Bacon for being a Methodist , and Flaxman for being a Swedenborgian . For the effect of such folly would be that we should have the worst possible Academy of Arts , and the worst possible Society for the Pro- motion of Christian ...
... Bacon for being a Methodist , and Flaxman for being a Swedenborgian . For the effect of such folly would be that we should have the worst possible Academy of Arts , and the worst possible Society for the Pro- motion of Christian ...
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... he will not suffer political avocations so entirely to engross him , as to leave him no leisure for literature and philosophy . VOL . II . L FRANCIS BACON ( July 1837 ) A new The Works Gladstone on Church and State 289.
... he will not suffer political avocations so entirely to engross him , as to leave him no leisure for literature and philosophy . VOL . II . L FRANCIS BACON ( July 1837 ) A new The Works Gladstone on Church and State 289.
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