The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1Baynes and son, 1824 |
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... former treated this unfortunate nobleman with a strain of petulant dulness and scurrility that makes us contemn his talent as a pleader , while we abhor the purpose to which he made it subservient . Bacon was moderate and de- cent . The ...
... former treated this unfortunate nobleman with a strain of petulant dulness and scurrility that makes us contemn his talent as a pleader , while we abhor the purpose to which he made it subservient . Bacon was moderate and de- cent . The ...
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... former was the greatest lawyer of his time ; but could be nothing more . If the latter was not so , we can ascribe it only to his aiming at a more exalted character . The universality of his genius could not be con- fined within one ...
... former was the greatest lawyer of his time ; but could be nothing more . If the latter was not so , we can ascribe it only to his aiming at a more exalted character . The universality of his genius could not be con- fined within one ...
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... former , reckon- ing it as an equal half of the island , rendered the de- sign abortive . Though Sir Francis Bacon laboured this argument with all the arts of wit and reason The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon . xxiii.
... former , reckon- ing it as an equal half of the island , rendered the de- sign abortive . Though Sir Francis Bacon laboured this argument with all the arts of wit and reason The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon . xxiii.
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... former opi- nion ; and to offer unasked his interest in the young lady's mother for promoting the match he had just been labouring to disappoint . On such trivial acci- dents do the fortunes of ministers depend : and to such little and ...
... former opi- nion ; and to offer unasked his interest in the young lady's mother for promoting the match he had just been labouring to disappoint . On such trivial acci- dents do the fortunes of ministers depend : and to such little and ...
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... former , in his negotiations with the latter , this Solo- mon was the only dupe . A great share of learning he certainly had , but of learning that a king ought not to be acquainted with ; the very refuse of the schools , which served ...
... former , in his negotiations with the latter , this Solo- mon was the only dupe . A great share of learning he certainly had , but of learning that a king ought not to be acquainted with ; the very refuse of the schools , which served ...
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