The Life and Correspondence of Francis BaconSaunders, Otley, 1861 - 568 pages |
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... , the mighty worker , self - sacrificing , loving labour , mightily endowed , valiant beyond measure , full of griefs for miseries he could not alleviate , as he appeared B 2 THE DEMIGODS OF ANTIQUE HISTORY . in the ideal CHAPTER I CHAPTER.
... , the mighty worker , self - sacrificing , loving labour , mightily endowed , valiant beyond measure , full of griefs for miseries he could not alleviate , as he appeared B 2 THE DEMIGODS OF ANTIQUE HISTORY . in the ideal CHAPTER I CHAPTER.
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... labours were open ; Francis Bacon's were secret and insidious . Theirs were brutal , and bore condemnation on their face . His were graced by every resource of oratory , adorned by every charm which a courtier - like manner , a ...
... labours were open ; Francis Bacon's were secret and insidious . Theirs were brutal , and bore condemnation on their face . His were graced by every resource of oratory , adorned by every charm which a courtier - like manner , a ...
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... labour for his noble mind . They were only ten in number , and not a tithe of their 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 ...
... labour for his noble mind . They were only ten in number , and not a tithe of their 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 ...
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... labours on , like the mole , from point to point , but always crawling , always blind ; becomes Attorney General ; will be , he thinks , prime minister by - and - by ; when a child , with a baby face — a mere cub of a lad , not half ...
... labours on , like the mole , from point to point , but always crawling , always blind ; becomes Attorney General ; will be , he thinks , prime minister by - and - by ; when a child , with a baby face — a mere cub of a lad , not half ...
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... labours . As Sir Nicholas Bacon's son he was entitled to hope for her Majesty's active interest in his welfare , as ... labour ; and although the road is smoothed by his father's name , and high position , as well as by his noble ...
... labours . As Sir Nicholas Bacon's son he was entitled to hope for her Majesty's active interest in his welfare , as ... labour ; and although the road is smoothed by his father's name , and high position , as well as by his noble ...
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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
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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.