Critical and Historical Essays, Contributed to the Edinburgh Review, Volume 2Tauchnitz, 1850 |
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... tion , not in small detached portions , but as a whole ; that he refined little , and that his reasonings were those of a capacious rather than a subtle mind . Ben Jonson , a most unexception- able judge , has described Bacon's ...
... tion , not in small detached portions , but as a whole ; that he refined little , and that his reasonings were those of a capacious rather than a subtle mind . Ben Jonson , a most unexception- able judge , has described Bacon's ...
Pagina 25
... tion of Luther from the communion of the Church of Rome , was now over . The boundary between Protestantism and Popery had been fixed very nearly where it still remains . England , Scotland , the Northern kingdoms were on one side ...
... tion of Luther from the communion of the Church of Rome , was now over . The boundary between Protestantism and Popery had been fixed very nearly where it still remains . England , Scotland , the Northern kingdoms were on one side ...
Pagina 54
... tion from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Ba- con was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and the most absurd that has ever ...
... tion from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Ba- con was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and the most absurd that has ever ...
Pagina 55
... tion , of an enlarged philanthropy , of a sincere love of truth . There , no temptation drew him away from the right course . Thomas Aquinas could pay no fees . Duns Scotus could con- fer no peerages . The Master of the Sentences had no ...
... tion , of an enlarged philanthropy , of a sincere love of truth . There , no temptation drew him away from the right course . Thomas Aquinas could pay no fees . Duns Scotus could con- fer no peerages . The Master of the Sentences had no ...
Pagina 85
... tion . But what analogy is there between payments of this sort and the presents which Bacon received , presents which were not sanctioned by the law , which were not made under the public eye , and of which the amount was regulated only ...
... tion . But what analogy is there between payments of this sort and the presents which Bacon received , presents which were not sanctioned by the law , which were not made under the public eye , and of which the amount was regulated only ...
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