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A Practical System of Rhetoric; Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 270
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1837 - 292 pages
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The Riddle of Justice: A Monograph, Together with Suggestions for Much ...

James Mulligan - Law - 1983 - 174 pages
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Francis Bacon: terminologia e fortuna nel XVII secolo : seminario ...

Marta Fattori - Philosophy - 1984 - 344 pages
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Elizabethan Popular Culture

Leonard R. N. Ashley - History - 1988 - 330 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator...
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Francis Bacon: History, Politics and Science, 1561-1626

B. H. G. Wormald - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 436 pages
...sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the creator...
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The Correspondence of Henry and Sarah Fielding

Henry Fielding, Sarah Fielding - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 272 pages
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The Advancement of Learning: With a Brief Memoir of the Author

Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1994 - 160 pages
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Knowledge and Postmodernism in Historical Perspective

Joyce Appleby - History - 1996 - 578 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit,- or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...itself upon,- or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention,- or a shop for profit or sale,- and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator...
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...were sought in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace, for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator...
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Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - Fiction - 1996 - 872 pages
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Dilettanten und Wissenschaft: zur Geschichte und Aktualität eines ...

Elisabeth Strauss - Psychology - 1996 - 224 pages
...Bacon befürchtet hatte. als "couch. whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit: a terrace. for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down...state. for a proud mind to raise itself upon: or a ford or commanding ground. for strife and contention: or a shop. for profit. or sale: and not a rieh...
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