The Life and Correspondence of Francis BaconSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 568 páginas |
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... present year , a work which professed to furnish a new biography of Lord Bacon , from papers never before published , was issued from the press . Being abundantly praised in print by various critics I was induced to read it . Smart and ...
... present year , a work which professed to furnish a new biography of Lord Bacon , from papers never before published , was issued from the press . Being abundantly praised in print by various critics I was induced to read it . Smart and ...
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... present purgatory A parliamentary device - 470 472 - 475 476 477 478 479 Adjournment of the House 480 The " muster " of petitions 481 The " thousand petitioners " to Parliament 482 Counterfeit illness 483 The apothecaries ' and grocers ...
... present purgatory A parliamentary device - 470 472 - 475 476 477 478 479 Adjournment of the House 480 The " muster " of petitions 481 The " thousand petitioners " to Parliament 482 Counterfeit illness 483 The apothecaries ' and grocers ...
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... present bulk . All his practice at the bar had been gained by cringing and begging from the Queen . He had dared little , and suffered much . All his deeply - laid policy of advancement , his hopes of preferment , his early visions of ...
... present bulk . All his practice at the bar had been gained by cringing and begging from the Queen . He had dared little , and suffered much . All his deeply - laid policy of advancement , his hopes of preferment , his early visions of ...
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... satisfied than authors of the present day , or the story must be accepted with limitations , it would be difficult to say . But in either aspect it says much for the lady's learning . 18 THE WISE FATHER . Some of her letters to.
... satisfied than authors of the present day , or the story must be accepted with limitations , it would be difficult to say . But in either aspect it says much for the lady's learning . 18 THE WISE FATHER . Some of her letters to.
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... present day ; and the entire informality of proceeding , not to say its judicial cruelty , might easily be paralleled in any of the state trials of the period . The " debarring him " of access by his friends was no uncommon hardship ...
... present day ; and the entire informality of proceeding , not to say its judicial cruelty , might easily be paralleled in any of the state trials of the period . The " debarring him " of access by his friends was no uncommon hardship ...
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Palavras e frases frequentes
abroad admirable Ann Bacon Anthony Bacon Anthony's Athenæum attorney Blount brother called Catholic cause Chamber Chancellor character Coke Coke's court courtiers death declare Dixon duty Earl of Essex Earl's Egerton Elizabeth enemies England evidence fact fame father favour favourite fear fortune Francis Bacon gain genius gifts give grace Gray's Gray's Inn hand hath honour hope inns of court judges justice king labours Lady Ann lawyer Leicester letter Lettice Knollys Lord Bacon Lord Burleigh Lord Campbell Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer lordship Macaulay Majesty Majesty's married masques meanest mind Montagu mother never noble offence opinion parliament patriotism person philosophy pleading Protestant prove Queen Raleigh reputation Robert Devereux scandalous servant Shakspere singular Sir Francis Sir Nicholas Sir Robert Cecil Sir Thomas speech Standen Star Chamber statesman subsidy temper tion truth unto virtue wife wise writes young
Passagens conhecidas
Página 385 - MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.
Página 198 - If to do were as easy as to know what were^ good to do, chapels had been churches, and poor men's cottages princes' palaces. It is a good divine that follows his own instructions: I can easier teach twenty what were good to be done, than be one of the twenty to follow mine own teaching.
Página 50 - I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it...
Página 385 - Love thyself last : cherish those hearts that hate thee ; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not : Let all the ends, thou aim'st at, be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's ; th(?n if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr.
Página 51 - ... voluntary poverty: but this I will do; I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which (he said) lay so deep.
Página iii - O eloquent, just, and mighty Death ! whom none could advise, thou hast persuaded ; what none hath dared, thou hast done ; and whom all the world hath flattered, thou only hast cast out of the world and despised ; thou hast drawn together all the far-stretched greatness, all the pride, cruelty, and ambition of man, and covered it all over with these two narrow words, Hie jaeet ! Lastly, whereas this book, by the title it hath, calls itself The First Part of tlie General History of the World...
Página 50 - I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty: but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth...
Página 479 - It is no feigning or fainting, but sickness both of my heart and of my back, though joined with that comfort of mind that persuadeth me that I am not far from Heaven, whereof I feel the first fruits.
Página 195 - A man of a nature not to be ruled, that hath the advantage of my affection and knoweth it, of an estate not grounded to his greatness, of a popular reputation, of a military dependence...
Página 530 - Here therefore [is] the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter : whereof though I have represented an example of late times, yet it hath been and will be secundum majus et minus in all time.