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Page vii
... excellent rules for governing , confirming , and enlarging , by custom and exer- cise , the motions and faculties of the wit and memory . This volume also contains Two Letters , the one relative to the Essays , addressed to the Marquis ...
... excellent rules for governing , confirming , and enlarging , by custom and exer- cise , the motions and faculties of the wit and memory . This volume also contains Two Letters , the one relative to the Essays , addressed to the Marquis ...
Page ix
... excellent , out of the confusion , or rather the mix- ture of all their styles , he formed his own , which partaking of each , was yet none of them , but a compound of them all , like the Corinthian metal , which had in it gold , and ...
... excellent , out of the confusion , or rather the mix- ture of all their styles , he formed his own , which partaking of each , was yet none of them , but a compound of them all , like the Corinthian metal , which had in it gold , and ...
Page xi
... excellent good ; ) nor for the meanness of the person , but because they are dull and flat ; and adding many new , that otherwise would have died . * This collection his lordship made out of his memory , without turn- ing to any book ...
... excellent good ; ) nor for the meanness of the person , but because they are dull and flat ; and adding many new , that otherwise would have died . * This collection his lordship made out of his memory , without turn- ing to any book ...
Page 52
... excellent vein in jesting ) at the very instant of his death , having a pretty long beard , after his head was upon the block , lift it up again , and gently drew his beard aside , and said ; This hath not offended the king . 184 ...
... excellent vein in jesting ) at the very instant of his death , having a pretty long beard , after his head was upon the block , lift it up again , and gently drew his beard aside , and said ; This hath not offended the king . 184 ...
Page 91
... excellent order of them , which moved me to dedicate this writing to your Lordship , after the antient manner : choosing both a friend , and one to whom I con- ceived the argument was agreeable . FRANCIS BACON . A FRAGMENT . OF THE ...
... excellent order of them , which moved me to dedicate this writing to your Lordship , after the antient manner : choosing both a friend , and one to whom I con- ceived the argument was agreeable . FRANCIS BACON . A FRAGMENT . OF THE ...
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