 ... before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible aliment they furnish to our own thoughts, and the sympathetic activity they impart to our torpid faculties.  Selden's table talk - Page iiiby John Selden - 1821Full view - About this book
 | 1816 - 828 pages
...from the triteness of hie subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours, — and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and U only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible... | |
 | 1816 - 802 pages
...from the triteness ofhis subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours, — and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 678 pages
...useful and applicable to the business of life. It may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, Bacon's Essays, ' after the twentieth perusal one...fails to remark in it something overlooked before.' a 2 Dr. Wilkins, the editor of Seldeii's works, has attempted to discredit the authenticity of the... | |
 | John Selden - 1818 - 230 pages
...useful and applicable to the business of life. It may be said of it, as of that exquisite little manual, Bacon's Essays, ' after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in jt something overlooked before.' a2 Dr. Wilkins, the editor of Selden's works, has attempted to discredit... | |
 | Edward Hyde Earl of Clarendon - 1819 - 378 pages
...profound learning : it is impossible to open it, without finding some important fact or diseussion, something practically useful and applicable to the...containing many things unworthy of a man of Selden's erndition, and at variance with his principles and practice : but this objection is far from conclusive,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...relief from the triteness of the subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours, and yet after the twentieth perusal one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible... | |
 | 1825 - 590 pages
...from the triteness of t/te subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something unobserved before. This indeed is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted... | |
 | 1827 - 750 pages
...relief from the triteness of his subject. It may he read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. 'This, indeed,' adds the same elegant and judicious writer, 1 is a characteristic of all bacon's writings,... | |
 | Thomas Morell - 1827 - 614 pages
...relief from the triteness of his subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours ; and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. " This, indeed," adds the same elegant and judicious writer, " is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 518 pages
...from the triteness of his subject. It may be read from beginning to end in a few hours, — and yet, after the twentieth perusal, one seldom fails to remark in it something overlooked before. This, indeed, is a characteristic of all Bacon's writings, and is only to be accounted for by the inexhaustible... | |
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