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Page vi
... : " HISTORY IS NATVRALL , CIVILE , ECCLESI- 66 ASTICALL & LITERARY , whereof the three first I " allow as extant , the fourth I note as deficient . For ( 6 no man hath propounded to himselfe the generall vi PREFACE .
... : " HISTORY IS NATVRALL , CIVILE , ECCLESI- 66 ASTICALL & LITERARY , whereof the three first I " allow as extant , the fourth I note as deficient . For ( 6 no man hath propounded to himselfe the generall vi PREFACE .
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... deficient . " " 6 In the treatise De Augmentis , considerable pro- gress is made in this projected work , in forty - seven distinct axioms , of which one is subjoined as a specimen : " Antequam vero ad corpus ipsum legum parti ...
... deficient . " " 6 In the treatise De Augmentis , considerable pro- gress is made in this projected work , in forty - seven distinct axioms , of which one is subjoined as a specimen : " Antequam vero ad corpus ipsum legum parti ...
Page 119
... deficient . For no man hath propounded to himself the general state of learning to be described and represented from age to age , as many have done the works of nature , and the state civil and ecclesiastical ; without which the history ...
... deficient . For no man hath propounded to himself the general state of learning to be described and represented from age to age , as many have done the works of nature , and the state civil and ecclesiastical ; without which the history ...
Page 121
... deficient . For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of genera- tions , productions , and motions ; whether they be singularities of place and ...
... deficient . For I find no sufficient or competent collection of the works of nature which have a digression and deflexion from the ordinary course of genera- tions , productions , and motions ; whether they be singularities of place and ...
Page 129
... deficient : deficient they are no doubt , con- sisting most of fables and fragments ; but the de- ficience cannot be holpen ; for antiquity is like fame , " caput inter nubila condit " ( she hides her head among the clouds ) , her head ...
... deficient : deficient they are no doubt , con- sisting most of fables and fragments ; but the de- ficience cannot be holpen ; for antiquity is like fame , " caput inter nubila condit " ( she hides her head among the clouds ) , her head ...
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