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Viscount St. Albans   Listen
Viscount St. Albans

noun
1.
English statesman and philosopher; precursor of British empiricism; advocated inductive reasoning (1561-1626).  Synonyms: 1st Baron Verulam, Bacon, Baron Verulam, Francis Bacon, Sir Francis Bacon.






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"Viscount St. Albans" Quotes from Famous Books



... great liking for Euripides is shown by his taking four lines from that poet's Hiketides as the motto for the pamphlet. Lord Bacon is again mentioned reverently, once as "Sir Francis Bacon" and again as "Viscount St. Albans." There is a tribute of high admiration to the Parliamentarian peer, Lord Brooke, so recently lost to England, and to the tract on the Nature of Episcopacy he had left behind him: those last words of his dying charge which "I know will ...
— The Life of John Milton Vol. 3 1643-1649 • David Masson



Words linked to "Viscount St. Albans" :   philosopher, solon, statesman, national leader, Francis Bacon



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