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Page xxxv
... favour such portions of the moral law as he found it inconvenient to observe . Instances of self - delusion such as this have been seen at almost all times . They were not unknown in Bacon's day ; and they became more common still ...
... favour such portions of the moral law as he found it inconvenient to observe . Instances of self - delusion such as this have been seen at almost all times . They were not unknown in Bacon's day ; and they became more common still ...
Page xxxvi
... favour with the great and to get on in the world were naturally distasteful to Bacon , and that though he thought it right to practise them with a view to ulterior objects and to important patriotic ends , he had to work against the ...
... favour with the great and to get on in the world were naturally distasteful to Bacon , and that though he thought it right to practise them with a view to ulterior objects and to important patriotic ends , he had to work against the ...
Page 6
... favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for ...
... favour ; but a natural though corrupt love of the lie itself . One of the later schools of the Grecians examineth the matter , and is at a stand to think what should be in it , that men should love lies ; where neither they make for ...
Page 9
... favour of the sceptical formula with which he starts . His work is an extreme expression of the dislike and distrust which men were beginning to feel for a dogmatism which had passed current as science . That the contemptuous reference ...
... favour of the sceptical formula with which he starts . His work is an extreme expression of the dislike and distrust which men were beginning to feel for a dogmatism which had passed current as science . That the contemptuous reference ...
Page 34
... favour of revenge . Works , i . 703. There is more said on the same side in the An- titheta , of which there is nothing in the Essay . b putteth the law out of office ] Lat . legem auctoritate sua plane spoliat . c Salomon , I am sure ...
... favour of revenge . Works , i . 703. There is more said on the same side in the An- titheta , of which there is nothing in the Essay . b putteth the law out of office ] Lat . legem auctoritate sua plane spoliat . c Salomon , I am sure ...
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