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... hand at moonlight shimmering on a lake , or at sunset on the tops of a range of hills ; for such a man has no thought of how tree , lake , and alp may be described in verse of five or six feet , or of the lines in which this or that old ...
... hand at moonlight shimmering on a lake , or at sunset on the tops of a range of hills ; for such a man has no thought of how tree , lake , and alp may be described in verse of five or six feet , or of the lines in which this or that old ...
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... hand , his praise of his hero rings out clear and loud . But there is much in the life of Bacon which he does not know . He has not given himself time to sift and winnow . Like an easy magistrate on the bench , he has taken the pleas ...
... hand , his praise of his hero rings out clear and loud . But there is much in the life of Bacon which he does not know . He has not given himself time to sift and winnow . Like an easy magistrate on the bench , he has taken the pleas ...
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... hand , and as a sample of his boyish style . Macaulay dwells on the change from his early to his later manner ; the ... hands of Mr. Wimbanke , 4. Gray's Inn Reg . , cited in Craik's Bacon , i . 12 ; Bacon to Wylie , July 11 , 1580 , in ...
... hand , and as a sample of his boyish style . Macaulay dwells on the change from his early to his later manner ; the ... hands of Mr. Wimbanke , 4. Gray's Inn Reg . , cited in Craik's Bacon , i . 12 ; Bacon to Wylie , July 11 , 1580 , in ...
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... hand . So runs his speech . A noble thought - a need of every nation under the sun - a task to be wrought at by him through a long life - to be then left to successors , who , after revolu- tions and restorations , commissions and ...
... hand . So runs his speech . A noble thought - a need of every nation under the sun - a task to be wrought at by him through a long life - to be then left to successors , who , after revolu- tions and restorations , commissions and ...
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... hand , I have just cause to fear that my brother will be put to a very shrewde plunge , either to forfeit his reversion to Harwin ( ? ) or else to undersell it very much ; for the avoiding of both which great inconveniences I see no ...
... hand , I have just cause to fear that my brother will be put to a very shrewde plunge , either to forfeit his reversion to Harwin ( ? ) or else to undersell it very much ; for the avoiding of both which great inconveniences I see no ...
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