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Excerpt from Lord Bacon's Essays Continued in Twenty Seven Chapters, Vol. 2: Translated From His Lordship's Treatise, De Augmentis Scientiarum I have often thought, that, if there was any Man, whom God vouchfaf'd to illumi nate with a Beam of Human Knowledge, in thefe modern Times, it was undoubtedly He. For though he was a great Reader of Books, yet that he drew his Knowledge from Books only, mufi never be granted, but from certain Principles and Notions, lighted up within himfelf 3 which notwith żanding he Vented not rafhly, but with great Caution, and Circumfpeé'tion. His.novum Orgmmm which in his own Account was the chiefef't of his Works) was no żight Imagination, or Fancy of his Brain 5 but a fixt as it Were, and radicated Notion 3 the Prodnétion of many Years inceffant Labour. I my felf have found, among his Lordihip's private Papers, -about twelve Copies of the Novum Orgmmm, labour'd, and revifed from Year to Year, and every Year żill further polifh'd and amended, till at laż; it came to that Frame, in which it was publifh'd: As many living Creatures lick their Young, till they bring them to Strength of Limbs. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Full title: Lord Bacon's Essays Continued in Twenty Seven Chapters, Vol. 2
• Subtitle: Translated From His Lordship's Treatise, De Augmentis Scientiarum (Classic Reprint)
• Author: Francis Bacon
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 490
• EAN: 9781334533624
• ISBN: 1334533628
• ID: 15558200
• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Weight: 651 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 26 mm
• Date of publishing: 06. December 2016

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