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- Francis Bacon (16741 bytes)
2: ...]]; both peerage titles becoming extinct upon his death.
4: ... best known as an philosophical advocate and defender of the [[scientific revolution]]. His works esta...
8: ...Nicholas Bacon]], Lord Keeper of the Great Seal under [[Elizabeth I of England|Elizabeth I]]. His moth...
10: ...ge of 13, living for three years there with his older brother [[Anthony Bacon]].
16: ...ce]] under [[Henry III of France|Henry III]] afforded him valuable political instruction. - Agnosticism (14359 bytes)
1: ...nconvinced or noncommittal about the existence of deities as well as other matters of [[religion]]. Th...
8: ...t he was an agnostic, but this remains subject to debate.
12: ... by Huxley to sum up his thoughts on contemporary developments of metaphysics about the "unconditioned...
14: ...o wonderful as the conservation of force or the indestructibility of matter"..
18: ... the human intellect flounders at once out of its depth.".. - Roman road (3913 bytes)
2: ...ructing straight roads often resulted in steep grades relatively impractical for most economic traffic...
4: ... of becoming mud in clay soils. The [[legion]]s made good time on these roads, and some are still used...
6: ...o Rome". Roman roads were designed that way to hinder provinces organising resistance against the Empi...
15: ...e [[Atlantic Ocean]] across [[Toulouse]] and [[Bordeaux]],
16: ...here it joins to the [[Via Augusta]] at the [[Col de Panissars]]. - Voltaire (48640 bytes)
4: ...Enlightenment|Enlightenment]] [[writer]], [[deism|deist]] and [[philosophy|philosopher]].
8: ...d in Paris, the grandfather being a prosperous tradesman. Nonetheless, throughout his life, Voltaire ...
10: ...unger brother was very fond, married early; the elder brother, Armand, was a strong [[Jansenism|Jansen...
12: ... [[knowledge]], and probably kindled his lifelong devotion to the stage.
14: ...ther stopped the affair by procuring a ''[[lettre de cachet]]'', though he never used it.
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