The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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... hand , to the general public as interesting from an English point of view ; but , on the other hand , to the critical philologian as confessedly imperfect , to be freely corrected and amended , and as intended rather to raise questions ...
... hand , to the general public as interesting from an English point of view ; but , on the other hand , to the critical philologian as confessedly imperfect , to be freely corrected and amended , and as intended rather to raise questions ...
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... hand was the vocabu- lary and style of Bacon , there was a hope of gleaning , perhaps , a few additional facts and evidences from this new field of inquiry . This hope has been fulfilled to a degree beyond ex- pectation , and as the ...
... hand was the vocabu- lary and style of Bacon , there was a hope of gleaning , perhaps , a few additional facts and evidences from this new field of inquiry . This hope has been fulfilled to a degree beyond ex- pectation , and as the ...
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... hand , and entitled Promus of Formularies and Elegancies , which ( though made in his early life for his own use , and not intended for preservation in that shape ) contains many things which might have formed part of such a collection ...
... hand , and entitled Promus of Formularies and Elegancies , which ( though made in his early life for his own use , and not intended for preservation in that shape ) contains many things which might have formed part of such a collection ...
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... books which were then in every scholar's hands , and the selected passages , standing , as they do , without any comment to show what he found in them , or how he • · it meant to apply them , have no 6 SPEDDING'S DESCRIPTION .
... books which were then in every scholar's hands , and the selected passages , standing , as they do , without any comment to show what he found in them , or how he • · it meant to apply them , have no 6 SPEDDING'S DESCRIPTION .
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... hands of every educated person , is now little known . It may be worth while to add a few particulars concerning it . The first part , Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit , appeared in 1579 ; and the second part , Euphues : His England , fol ...
... hands of every educated person , is now little known . It may be worth while to add a few particulars concerning it . The first part , Euphues : The Anatomy of Wit , appeared in 1579 ; and the second part , Euphues : His England , fol ...
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