The Works of Francis Bacon, Volumen11Houghton, Mifflin, 1860 |
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... true relations of events , and to present them to the reader in their proper succession and proportions , was the task which he now undertook . In this , which under such conditions was all he could attempt , he succeeded so well that ...
... true relations of events , and to present them to the reader in their proper succession and proportions , was the task which he now undertook . In this , which under such conditions was all he could attempt , he succeeded so well that ...
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... true that during the last century popular taste in this kind of composition ran another way ; forsaking the model of Thucydides , in whose pages the events of the Pelopon- nesian war still live as fresh as those which we follow day by ...
... true that during the last century popular taste in this kind of composition ran another way ; forsaking the model of Thucydides , in whose pages the events of the Pelopon- nesian war still live as fresh as those which we follow day by ...
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... true image of Henry the Seventh , but to flatter the humour of James the First by drawing such a picture of his ancestor as should indirectly reflect honour on himself . I do not know into whose imagination this idea first entered , but ...
... true image of Henry the Seventh , but to flatter the humour of James the First by drawing such a picture of his ancestor as should indirectly reflect honour on himself . I do not know into whose imagination this idea first entered , but ...
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... true that Henry was the least odious of the three royal sages . " It is due in the strictest justice to Lord Bacon not to omit , that the history was written to gratify James I. , to whom he was then suing for bitter bread , who revised ...
... true that Henry was the least odious of the three royal sages . " It is due in the strictest justice to Lord Bacon not to omit , that the history was written to gratify James I. , to whom he was then suing for bitter bread , who revised ...
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... true . For if it were so , to set about detecting and rectifying historical in- accuracies would be a mere waste of time and a mis- taking of the proper duty of an editor . In that case the book as a history would be merely worthless ...
... true . For if it were so , to set about detecting and rectifying historical in- accuracies would be a mere waste of time and a mis- taking of the proper duty of an editor . In that case the book as a history would be merely worthless ...
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