The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |
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Page viii
... in the merest trifles . Analogy is always in his mind . If you can say Good - morrow , ' why should you not also say Good - dawning ' ( entry 1206 ) ? If you can anglicise some 6 French words , why not others ? 6 Why not viii PREFACE .
... in the merest trifles . Analogy is always in his mind . If you can say Good - morrow , ' why should you not also say Good - dawning ' ( entry 1206 ) ? If you can anglicise some 6 French words , why not others ? 6 Why not viii PREFACE .
Page xvi
... Mind an Instrument , Carving out Fortune , Desires , Coun- sellors , Princes , War , the Beauty of Autumn , Love of ... Minds - Silence - Simplicity - Judgment of Character- Time - Corruption in Justice -- An End to all Things-- Pilots ...
... Mind an Instrument , Carving out Fortune , Desires , Coun- sellors , Princes , War , the Beauty of Autumn , Love of ... Minds - Silence - Simplicity - Judgment of Character- Time - Corruption in Justice -- An End to all Things-- Pilots ...
Page xviii
... Mind -Zeal - Haste - Impatience , & c . 116 . 118b . " Colours of Good and Evil ' --Flattery - Detraction Colours of ... Minds - The Greater contains the Less - Great Desires - Prudent Choice - Creation and Preservation- Consequences ...
... Mind -Zeal - Haste - Impatience , & c . 116 . 118b . " Colours of Good and Evil ' --Flattery - Detraction Colours of ... Minds - The Greater contains the Less - Great Desires - Prudent Choice - Creation and Preservation- Consequences ...
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... mind , that ' aptness to perceive analogies , ' which he notes as being necessary to the inventor of aphorisms , and which , elsewhere , he speaks of decidedly , though modestly , as gifts with which he felt himself to be specially ...
... mind , that ' aptness to perceive analogies , ' which he notes as being necessary to the inventor of aphorisms , and which , elsewhere , he speaks of decidedly , though modestly , as gifts with which he felt himself to be specially ...
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... mind . This would in all cases be a good exercise for the memory , and in some cases may have been practised for that alone . But there is something in his selection of sentences and verses out of the poets which seems to require ...
... mind . This would in all cases be a good exercise for the memory , and in some cases may have been practised for that alone . But there is something in his selection of sentences and verses out of the poets which seems to require ...
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