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Page iii
... knowledge and the elucidation of true science , paths that have been so suc- cessfully trodden by a Boyle , a Locke , and even a Newton himself . This miscellany of Lord BACON's productions , is intended as a companion to the elegant ...
... knowledge and the elucidation of true science , paths that have been so suc- cessfully trodden by a Boyle , a Locke , and even a Newton himself . This miscellany of Lord BACON's productions , is intended as a companion to the elegant ...
Page iv
... knowledge of life , and in a most accurate discrimination of the motives by which the pussions of mankind are actuated ; and they are strengthened by a force of simili- tude , which neither sophistry nor sarcasm in their happiest vein ...
... knowledge of life , and in a most accurate discrimination of the motives by which the pussions of mankind are actuated ; and they are strengthened by a force of simili- tude , which neither sophistry nor sarcasm in their happiest vein ...
Page v
... knowledge , must lament he left it in an unfinished state . De- signed to comprehend in its various branches the animate and inanimate world , it was undertaken upon a scale , perhaps , too great for the genius and acquirements of any ...
... knowledge , must lament he left it in an unfinished state . De- signed to comprehend in its various branches the animate and inanimate world , it was undertaken upon a scale , perhaps , too great for the genius and acquirements of any ...
Page vi
... knowledge is uttered to men in a form , as if every thing were finished ; for it is reduced into arts and methods , which in their division do seem to include all that may be . And how weakly soever the purts are filled , yet they carry ...
... knowledge is uttered to men in a form , as if every thing were finished ; for it is reduced into arts and methods , which in their division do seem to include all that may be . And how weakly soever the purts are filled , yet they carry ...
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... knowledge of his coming ; sir , since you sent me no word of your coming , you must dine with me ; but if I had known of it in due time , I would have dined with you . 80. Pope Julius the third , when he was made pope , gave his hat ...
... knowledge of his coming ; sir , since you sent me no word of your coming , you must dine with me ; but if I had known of it in due time , I would have dined with you . 80. Pope Julius the third , when he was made pope , gave his hat ...
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