Seventeenth Century Essays: From Bacon to ClarendonJacob Zeitlin C. Scribner's Sons, 1926 - 346 pages |
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... Truth does not fail in the last paragraph to pass from " theological and philosophical truth , to the truth of civil business . " The use of illustrations from history and literature in the later essays is nearly always explained as a ...
... Truth does not fail in the last paragraph to pass from " theological and philosophical truth , to the truth of civil business . " The use of illustrations from history and literature in the later essays is nearly always explained as a ...
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... truth , which only doth judge itself , teacheth that the inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it , is ...
... truth , which only doth judge itself , teacheth that the inquiry of truth , which is the love - making or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth , which is the presence of it ; and the belief of truth , which is the enjoying of it , is ...
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... truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity . Many , from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconsiderate zeal unto truth , have too rashly charged the troops and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth . A ...
... truth , nor fit to take up the gauntlet in the cause of verity . Many , from the ignorance of these maxims , and an inconsiderate zeal unto truth , have too rashly charged the troops and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth . A ...
Contents
FRANCIS BACON | 1 |
XSIR WILLIAM CORNWALLIS | 30 |
ROBERT JOHNSON | 42 |
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