The Life and Correspondence of Francis BaconSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 568 pages |
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... Majesty - His apology to Burleigh and recantation The Recorder of Chelmsford's bold apology for a similar offence ... Majesty's opinion of his merits Essex's intercession The manner that Bacon has been advanced Bacon traduces his rival ...
... Majesty - His apology to Burleigh and recantation The Recorder of Chelmsford's bold apology for a similar offence ... Majesty's opinion of his merits Essex's intercession The manner that Bacon has been advanced Bacon traduces his rival ...
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... Majesty's mouthpiece . He opens by hoping that he will not be tedious to her Majesty , a not unnatural wish in a man now sixty - one years of age , and whose manner and style were likely to be less * Somers ' Tracts , vol . i . , p ...
... Majesty's mouthpiece . He opens by hoping that he will not be tedious to her Majesty , a not unnatural wish in a man now sixty - one years of age , and whose manner and style were likely to be less * Somers ' Tracts , vol . i . , p ...
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... Majesty's active interest in his welfare , as well as that of his father's old colleague , and near kinsman , Burleigh . Notwithstanding his high office held so many years , the Lord Keeper had died poor , leaving his estate at Gorhamn ...
... Majesty's active interest in his welfare , as well as that of his father's old colleague , and near kinsman , Burleigh . Notwithstanding his high office held so many years , the Lord Keeper had died poor , leaving his estate at Gorhamn ...
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... Majesty , and withal to add in the behalf of it , that which I may better deliver by letter than by speech ; which is that although it must be confessed that the request is rare and unaccustomed , yet if it be observed how few there be ...
... Majesty , and withal to add in the behalf of it , that which I may better deliver by letter than by speech ; which is that although it must be confessed that the request is rare and unaccustomed , yet if it be observed how few there be ...
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... Majesty's gracious opinion and meaning towards me , though at that time your leisure gave me not leave to show how I was affected therewith , yet upon every representation thereof it entreth and striketh so much more deeply into me , as ...
... Majesty's gracious opinion and meaning towards me , though at that time your leisure gave me not leave to show how I was affected therewith , yet upon every representation thereof it entreth and striketh so much more deeply into me , as ...
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abroad Ann Bacon Anthony Bacon Anthony's Athenĉum Attorney Blount brother called Catholic cause Chancellor character Chief Justice Coke Coke's court danger death declared Devereux Dixon doubt duty Earl of Essex Earl's Egerton Elizabeth enemies England Essex House evidence fact fame father favour favourite fear fortune Francis Bacon genius gifts give Gray's Gray's Inn hand hath heart honour hope judges King King's labours Lady Ann lawyer Leicester letter Lettice Knollys Lord Bacon Lord Burleigh Lord Campbell Lord Keeper Lord Treasurer lordship Macaulay Majesty Majesty's matter mind Montagu mother never noble offence opinion parliament Peacham person pleading prisoner protest Queen Raleigh reason reputation scandalous servant Shakspere Sir Christopher Blount Sir Francis Sir Nicholas Sir Robert Cecil Sir Thomas speech Standen Star Chamber subsidy temper tion trial truth unto wife wise worthy writes young
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Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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...
Page 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.
Page 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...
Page 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.