Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ...
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- Baconiana, or, Certain genuine remains of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, and Viscount of St. Albans in arguments civil and moral, natural, medical, theological, and bibliographical now for the first time faithfully published ...
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- Bacon, Francis, 1561-1626.
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- London :: Printed by J.D. for Richard Chiswell ...,
- 1679.
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A CHARACTER OF THE Lord Bacon,
Given by Dr. Peter Heylin, in his Life of Arch-Bishop Laud, Part 1. Pag. 64. Anno 1620.
THe Lord Chancellor Bacon, was a Man—of a most strong Brain, and a Chymical Head; designing his Endeavours to the perfecting of the Works of Nature; or rather improving Na∣ture to the best Advantages of Life, and the common Benefit of Mankind. Pity it was, he was not entertain'd with some libe∣ral Salary, abstracted from all Affairs both of Court and Judicature, and furnished with Sufficiency, both of Means and Helps,
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for the going on in his Design: Which had it been, he might have given us such a body of Natural Philosophy, and made it so subservient to the Publick Good, that nei∣ther Aristotle, nor Theophrastus, amongst the Ancients; nor Paracelsus, or the rest of our latter Chymists, would have been con∣siderable.