Essays, Letters from AbroadMoxon, 1845 - 164 pages |
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... Lord Bacon to be " the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world " -and he considers the faculty which perceives them as the storehouse of axioms common to all knowledge . In the infancy of society every ...
... Lord Bacon to be " the same footsteps of nature impressed upon the various subjects of the world " -and he considers the faculty which perceives them as the storehouse of axioms common to all knowledge . In the infancy of society every ...
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... Lord Bacon was a poet . * His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm , which satisfies the sense , no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philo- sophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends , and then bursts ...
... Lord Bacon was a poet . * His language has a sweet and majestic rhythm , which satisfies the sense , no less than the almost superhuman wisdom of his philo- sophy satisfies the intellect ; it is a strain which distends , and then bursts ...
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... Lord Bacon , nor Milton , had ever existed ; if Raphael and Michael Angelo had never been born ; if the Hebrew poetry had never been translated ; if a revival of the study of Greek literature had never taken place ; if no monuments of ...
... Lord Bacon , nor Milton , had ever existed ; if Raphael and Michael Angelo had never been born ; if the Hebrew poetry had never been translated ; if a revival of the study of Greek literature had never taken place ; if no monuments of ...
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... Lord Bacon was a peculator , that Raphael was a libertine , that Spenser was a poet laureate . It is inconsistent with this division of our subject to cite living poets , but posterity has done ample justice to the great names now ...
... Lord Bacon was a peculator , that Raphael was a libertine , that Spenser was a poet laureate . It is inconsistent with this division of our subject to cite living poets , but posterity has done ample justice to the great names now ...
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... Lord Bacon is , perhaps , the only writer , who , in these parti- culars , can be compared with him : his imitator , Cicero , sinks in the comparison into an ape mocking the gestures of a man . His views into the nature * The Republic ...
... Lord Bacon is , perhaps , the only writer , who , in these parti- culars , can be compared with him : his imitator , Cicero , sinks in the comparison into an ape mocking the gestures of a man . His views into the nature * The Republic ...
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