The Promus of Formularies and Elegancies: (being Private Notes, Circ. 1594, Hitherto Unpublished) by Francis Bacon, Illustrated and Elucidated by Passages from ShakespeareHoughton, Mifflin, & Company, 1883 - 628 pages |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 xii
... thing at least worth thinking about ; and to publish some of the best things of the best classical authors , thought worthy of being collected by one of our best English authors , seems a work that needs no apology . Besides , in many ...
... thing at least worth thinking about ; and to publish some of the best things of the best classical authors , thought worthy of being collected by one of our best English authors , seems a work that needs no apology . Besides , in many ...
Page xvi
... Things- Pilots of Fortune , & c . • 916. Text and Quotations from Virgil and Horace , chiefly eon- cerning the Law , corrupt , noisy , verbose , & c . - Step - dame evil - eyed - Oracles of the State - Power - Successful Crime -Sinners ...
... Things- Pilots of Fortune , & c . • 916. Text and Quotations from Virgil and Horace , chiefly eon- cerning the Law , corrupt , noisy , verbose , & c . - Step - dame evil - eyed - Oracles of the State - Power - Successful Crime -Sinners ...
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... Things Desirable Things - Means to an End - Beginnings - Ends - Diffi- cult - Easy 6 · - 124. Col. G. and E .'- Of Hidden Things - Experience - No Re- treat -- Adversity - Martial Love - Circumstance - The " North Wind - Cold parches ...
... Things Desirable Things - Means to an End - Beginnings - Ends - Diffi- cult - Easy 6 · - 124. Col. G. and E .'- Of Hidden Things - Experience - No Re- treat -- Adversity - Martial Love - Circumstance - The " North Wind - Cold parches ...
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... things ready - made - up , both to be applied to that which is frequent and most in request . The former of these I will call antitheta , and the latter formulæ.1 The Promus , then , was Bacon's shop or storehouse , from which he would ...
... things ready - made - up , both to be applied to that which is frequent and most in request . The former of these I will call antitheta , and the latter formulæ.1 The Promus , then , was Bacon's shop or storehouse , from which he would ...
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... things from each other ; so that not only opinions and ideas , but similes , turns of expression , and words which the one introduced ( and which perhaps he only used once or twice and then dropped ) , appeared shortly afterwards in the ...
... things from each other ; so that not only opinions and ideas , but similes , turns of expression , and words which the one introduced ( and which perhaps he only used once or twice and then dropped ) , appeared shortly afterwards in the ...
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