The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen1Longman, 1858 - 665 páginas |
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... better condition of your affairs . " 3 For myself , most excellent king , I may truly say that both in this present work , and in those I intend to publish hereafter , I often ad- visedly and deliberately throw aside the dignity of my ...
... better condition of your affairs . " 3 For myself , most excellent king , I may truly say that both in this present work , and in those I intend to publish hereafter , I often ad- visedly and deliberately throw aside the dignity of my ...
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... Better says the poet ( for a heathen ) : Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem Qui finem vitæ extremum inter munera ponat Naturæ.1 So have philosophers sought in all things to make men's minds too uniform and harmonical , not ...
... Better says the poet ( for a heathen ) : Fortem posce animum mortis terrore carentem Qui finem vitæ extremum inter munera ponat Naturæ.1 So have philosophers sought in all things to make men's minds too uniform and harmonical , not ...
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... better than a civil war ; while a third set affirmed , according to the doctrine of Epicurus , that it was unfit for wise men to endanger them- selves in the cause of fools.3 But there are a number of like cases of comparative duties ...
... better than a civil war ; while a third set affirmed , according to the doctrine of Epicurus , that it was unfit for wise men to endanger them- selves in the cause of fools.3 But there are a number of like cases of comparative duties ...
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... better idea of the man , than any formal criticism and review can ; such is that of Africanus and Cato the Elder in Livy , of Tiberius , and Claudius , and Nero in Tacitus , of Septimius Severus in Herodian , of Louis XI . , King of ...
... better idea of the man , than any formal criticism and review can ; such is that of Africanus and Cato the Elder in Livy , of Tiberius , and Claudius , and Nero in Tacitus , of Septimius Severus in Herodian , of Louis XI . , King of ...
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... better ; " Vespasian alone was changed for the better . " 4 Pindar makes the observation that great and sudden good fortune for the most part defeats and enervates men's minds . " There be , that are not able to digest great prosperity ...
... better ; " Vespasian alone was changed for the better . " 4 Pindar makes the observation that great and sudden good fortune for the most part defeats and enervates men's minds . " There be , that are not able to digest great prosperity ...
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