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Pocket Encyclopedia: Or, A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and Polite Literature - Page 164
by Edward Augustus Kendall - 1811
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also, in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws; or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which...
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A History of the Royal Society, with Memoris of the Presidents, Volume 1

Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also, in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws ; or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which...
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Utopia: Or the Happy Republic, a Philosophical Romance. To which is Added ...

Sir Thomas More (Saint) - 1852 - 348 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history diverted him, which...
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A Treatise on the Methods of Observation and Reasoning in Politics, Volume 2

Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1852 - 500 pages
...of beneficial inventions. His lordship (says Rawley) intended, in the same fable, ' to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth/ but was prevented from executing his design. (w) ยง 16 Another work, belonging to the same class, and not...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable, to have composed oration and inseparable conjunction of counsel wiih kings, and the wis foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His Lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of Laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History' diverted him, which...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - 1857 - 856 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His Lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of Laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History ' diverted him, which...
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His Lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of Laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History1 diverted him, which...
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