The Life of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England

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A. Millar, 1740 - 197 стор.
 

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Сторінка 46 - The quarrel betwixt them seems to have been personal: and it lasted to the end of their lives. Coke was jealous of Bacon's reputation in many parts of knowledge: by whom, again, he was envied for the high reputation he had acquired in one ; each aiming to be admired, particularly, for that in which the other excelled. This affectation in two extraordinary men has something in it very mean, and is not uncommon.
Сторінка 144 - For all which, he was in his life-time calumniated, imprisoned, oppressed : and after his death wounded in his good name, as a magician who had dealt in arts, infernal and abominable. He tells us, that there were but four persons then in Europe who had made any progress in the mathematics ; and in...
Сторінка 196 - CERTAIN CONSIDERATIONS TOUCHING THE BETTER PACIFICATION AND EDIFICATION OF THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND.
Сторінка 153 - Paul, and fome few others, they are well known, and have been defervedly celebrated. Yet there was ftill wanting one great,, and comprehenfive plan , that might embrace the al/ fSMef.
Сторінка 165 - Tully, may, with strict justice, be applied to him ; that it was more glorious to have extended the limits of human wit, than to have enlarged the bounds of the Roman world. Sir Francis Bacon really did so ; a truth acknowledged not only by the greatest private names in Europe, but by all the public societies of its most civilized nations. France, Italy, Germany, Britain, I may add even Russia, have taken him for their leader, and submitted to be governed by his institutions. The empire he has erected...
Сторінка 128 - ... of the habit concealed every appearance of art: a happy versatility of genius, which all men wish to arrive at, and one or two, once in an age, are seen to possess.
Сторінка 159 - ... be treated, at first, as visionary, or impracticable, merely for being new. This our author foresaw, and endeavoured to obviate, in the third part of his Instauration ; by furnishing materials himself towards a natural and experimental history ; a work which he thought so indispensably necessary, that without it the united endeavours of all mankind, in all ages, would be insufficient to rear and perfect the great structure of the sciences. He was aware too, that even men of freer and more extensive...
Сторінка 2 - I shall dwell with pleasure on the shining part of my lord Bacon's character, as a writer ; I shall not dare either to conceal or palliate his blemishes, as a man. It equally concerns the public to be made acquainted with both.
Сторінка 130 - He owed to hiinfelf alone , to a certain intellectual fagacity, that beam of true discernment, which fliewed him at once, and as it were by intuition , what the moft painful enquirers, for more than twenty ages backward, had fearched after in vain. And here let me obferve...
Сторінка 77 - General, which required his frequent attendance in the upper bouse : the commons, from their particular regard for Sir Francis Bacon, and for that time only, overruled the objection ; and he was accordingly allowed to take his place among them. If I observe farther, that the king raised him to the dignity of a...

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