The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 ix
... better wait for the issue of Dr. Murray's great Dictionary which will tell us to how many of these experiments we are indebted for words now current in our language . Many interesting philological or literary questions will be raised by ...
... better wait for the issue of Dr. Murray's great Dictionary which will tell us to how many of these experiments we are indebted for words now current in our language . Many interesting philological or literary questions will be raised by ...
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... better than read Mr. Spedding's account of them : 3 . ' All the editions of Bacon's works contain a small collection of Latin sentences collected from the Mimi of Publius Syrus , under the title of Ornamenta Rationalia , followed by a ...
... better than read Mr. Spedding's account of them : 3 . ' All the editions of Bacon's works contain a small collection of Latin sentences collected from the Mimi of Publius Syrus , under the title of Ornamenta Rationalia , followed by a ...
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... better man than Troilus . Pan . Achilles ! a drayman , a porter , a very camel . Cres . Well , well . Pan . Well , well ? Why , have you any discretion ? Have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape ...
... better man than Troilus . Pan . Achilles ! a drayman , a porter , a very camel . Cres . Well , well . Pan . Well , well ? Why , have you any discretion ? Have you any eyes ? Do you know what a man is ? Is not birth , beauty , good shape ...
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... better plan than by introducing them to public notice in his plays , and there they appear with a frequency which , considering their absence from other previous or contemporary writers , renders them remarkable , and seems to prove ...
... better plan than by introducing them to public notice in his plays , and there they appear with a frequency which , considering their absence from other previous or contemporary writers , renders them remarkable , and seems to prove ...
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... Better be envied than pitied . ' Greene , in his History of Friar Bacon , has ' Up early , and never the nearer . ' If Ben Jonson has any , they have escaped notice . In other writings , English proverbs traceable to the Promus , or ...
... Better be envied than pitied . ' Greene , in his History of Friar Bacon , has ' Up early , and never the nearer . ' If Ben Jonson has any , they have escaped notice . In other writings , English proverbs traceable to the Promus , or ...
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