Sketches of the History of Literature and Learning in England ...: With Specimens of the Principal Writers, Volume 2C. Knight & Company, 1845 - English language |
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... seventeenth , not to the sixteenth century . The common name , neverthe- less , is the fair and proper one . It sprung up in the age of Elizabeth , and was mainly the produce of influences which belonged to that age , although their ...
... seventeenth , not to the sixteenth century . The common name , neverthe- less , is the fair and proper one . It sprung up in the age of Elizabeth , and was mainly the produce of influences which belonged to that age , although their ...
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... seventeenth century . Bishop Kennet , who has republished Daniel's History , after telling us that the author had a place at Court in the reign of King James I. , none . being groom of the privy chambers to the Queen , 142 LITERATURE ...
... seventeenth century . Bishop Kennet , who has republished Daniel's History , after telling us that the author had a place at Court in the reign of King James I. , none . being groom of the privy chambers to the Queen , 142 LITERATURE ...
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... seventeenth century have left us a considerable quantity of literary manufacture of their own , and that it is almost all theo- logical . The writings of Charles I. will be noticed in the next Book . King James , whose works were col ...
... seventeenth century have left us a considerable quantity of literary manufacture of their own , and that it is almost all theo- logical . The writings of Charles I. will be noticed in the next Book . King James , whose works were col ...
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... seventeenth century , is Francis Bacon . Bacon , born in 1561 , published the first edition of his Essays ' in 1597 ; his Two Books of the Advancement of Learning ' in 1605 ; his Wisdom of the Ancients ' ( in Latin ) in 1610 ; a third ...
... seventeenth century , is Francis Bacon . Bacon , born in 1561 , published the first edition of his Essays ' in 1597 ; his Two Books of the Advancement of Learning ' in 1605 ; his Wisdom of the Ancients ' ( in Latin ) in 1610 ; a third ...
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... seventeenth century produced , I which is at the same time the most valuable as an ori- ginal authority and the most masterly in its execution , is undoubtedly Bacon's History of the reign of Henry VII . The series of popular national ...
... seventeenth century produced , I which is at the same time the most valuable as an ori- ginal authority and the most masterly in its execution , is undoubtedly Bacon's History of the reign of Henry VII . The series of popular national ...
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