Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
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Page xxiv
... honor — the virtue of humility cannot be carried so far as to incur it willingly . He will therefore accept the first duel that offers , and his reputation for courage being vindicated , he will thereafter disdain every provocation ...
... honor — the virtue of humility cannot be carried so far as to incur it willingly . He will therefore accept the first duel that offers , and his reputation for courage being vindicated , he will thereafter disdain every provocation ...
Page 94
... honor , too , and that was Vates . Nor know I how to distinguish between the prophets and poets of Israel . What is Jeremiah's Lamentation , but a kind of Sapphic elegy ? David's Psalms are not only poems but songs , snatches and ...
... honor , too , and that was Vates . Nor know I how to distinguish between the prophets and poets of Israel . What is Jeremiah's Lamentation , but a kind of Sapphic elegy ? David's Psalms are not only poems but songs , snatches and ...
Page 282
... honor that the world adores ; whatsoever virtue its prepared substance may have within my body , it hath no influence nor operation without . I would not entertain a base design , or an action that should call me villain , for the ...
... honor that the world adores ; whatsoever virtue its prepared substance may have within my body , it hath no influence nor operation without . I would not entertain a base design , or an action that should call me villain , for the ...
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FRANCIS BACON | 1 |
XSIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS | 30 |
ROBERT JOHNSON | 42 |
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