The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:William Pickering., 1834 |
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... lordship in your prosperity , I deem it one of my greatest misfortunes my not being able to serve you as duty and gratitude require of me now you are in adversity . Still greater is my mis- fortune , since my presence here is now ...
... lordship in your prosperity , I deem it one of my greatest misfortunes my not being able to serve you as duty and gratitude require of me now you are in adversity . Still greater is my mis- fortune , since my presence here is now ...
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... lordship's power , and great hope , for many reasons , of your favour , which if I may obtain , I can say no more , but nobleness is ever requited in itself ; and God , whose special favour in my afflictions I have manifestly found to ...
... lordship's power , and great hope , for many reasons , of your favour , which if I may obtain , I can say no more , but nobleness is ever requited in itself ; and God , whose special favour in my afflictions I have manifestly found to ...
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... lordship was summoned to parliament in the suc- ceeding reign , but was prevented , by his infirmities , from again taking his seat as a peer . A. D. 1625 . Æt . 65 . Death of James . his health . Though Lord Bacon's constitution had ...
... lordship was summoned to parliament in the suc- ceeding reign , but was prevented , by his infirmities , from again taking his seat as a peer . A. D. 1625 . Æt . 65 . Death of James . his health . Though Lord Bacon's constitution had ...
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... lordship hath received much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection ; stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney corner . And particularly ...
... lordship hath received much injury by late editions , of which some have much enlarged , but not at all enriched the collection ; stuffing it with tales and sayings , too infacetious for a ploughman's chimney corner . And particularly ...
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... lordship's , inscribed , A Confession of the Faith , I have ranked that in the close of this whole volume ; thereby to demonstrate to the world that he was a master in divinity , as well as in philosophy or politics , and that he was ...
... lordship's , inscribed , A Confession of the Faith , I have ranked that in the close of this whole volume ; thereby to demonstrate to the world that he was a master in divinity , as well as in philosophy or politics , and that he was ...
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Seite cdxlvi - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite 7 - Sir, you do not know it to be good or bad till the judge determines it. I have said that you are to state facts fairly ; so that your thinking, or what you call knowing, a cause to be bad, must be from reasoning, must be from your supposing your arguments to be weak and inconclusive.
Seite cdxxxv - Lord ! how Thy servant hath walked before Thee; remember what I have first sought, and what hath been principal in my intentions. I have loved Thy assemblies, I have mourned for the divisions of Thy Church, I have delighted in the brightness of Thy sanctuary. This vine which Thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto Thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Seite cdxxvii - My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours : but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but...