The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen1Longman, 1858 - 665 páginas |
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... turn common labourer , hodman , anything that is wanted ; taking upon myself the burden and execution of many things which must needs be done , and which others through an inborn pride shrink from and decline . But to return to the ...
... turn common labourer , hodman , anything that is wanted ; taking upon myself the burden and execution of many things which must needs be done , and which others through an inborn pride shrink from and decline . But to return to the ...
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... turning most quickly and suddenly . Lastly , it censures also the tenderness and want of compliance in some of the most ancient and reverend philosophers , who retired too easily from civil business that they might avoid in- dignities ...
... turning most quickly and suddenly . Lastly , it censures also the tenderness and want of compliance in some of the most ancient and reverend philosophers , who retired too easily from civil business that they might avoid in- dignities ...
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... turning to him , said , " What have you to say for me to report ? " To whom he answered , " Tell your king that you have found a man in Greece , who knew how to hold his tongue . " And in truth , in this synopsis of the arts I have ...
... turning to him , said , " What have you to say for me to report ? " To whom he answered , " Tell your king that you have found a man in Greece , who knew how to hold his tongue . " And in truth , in this synopsis of the arts I have ...
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... turn to speak , Solomon gives two directions : first , " that an answer be made , " and secondly , " that it be soft ; " the former whereof contains three precepts . First , to beware of a sullen and obstinate silence , which either ...
... turn to speak , Solomon gives two directions : first , " that an answer be made , " and secondly , " that it be soft ; " the former whereof contains three precepts . First , to beware of a sullen and obstinate silence , which either ...
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... turn , we must lose in dignity and can no ways quit ourselves well of it . But the worst of all is if , as Solomon says , our adversary has somewhat of the fool in him , that is , if he be bold and pre- sumptuous . PROVERB . ( 4. ) Lend ...
... turn , we must lose in dignity and can no ways quit ourselves well of it . But the worst of all is if , as Solomon says , our adversary has somewhat of the fool in him , that is , if he be bold and pre- sumptuous . PROVERB . ( 4. ) Lend ...
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