 | 1818 - 586 pages
...ruined some Bishop• Not over liberal.] " My good old Mistress was wont to call me her match-candle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn...and yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing." Sir F. Bacon to King James, AD 1612. " A couipany of young Courtiers appeared extraordinary gallant... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 618 pages
...offering is care and observance : and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn,...I rest Your Majesty's most humble servant devote, TO THE KING. It may please your excellent Majesty, MY principal end being to do your majesty service,... | |
 | 1822 - 386 pages
...offering is care and observance: and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn,...rest your majesty's most humble servant devote, " FB" In the two next remarkable letters to the King, Salisbury is again alluded to more bitterly than before.... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - 1822 - 386 pages
...offering is care and observance: and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn,...rest your majesty's most humble servant devote, " FB" In the two next remarkable letters to the King, Salisbury is again alluded to more bitterly than before.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...judgment, or elocution, or method, or any of those powers, yet my offering is care and observance : and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her...I rest Your Majesty's most humble Servant devote, 31 May, 1612. FB To the King. It may please your excellent Majesty, My principal end being to do your... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...among Bacon's most useful friends. — Ib. pp. 476, 478, 479. 'was wont to call me her watch-candle, because it pleased her to say I did continually burn;...yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing.'* True it is, the Queen, at the solicitation of the lord Treasurer, though with vehement opposition,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 864 pages
...offering is care and observance : and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle, quidda PB TO THE KING. IT MAY PLEASE YOUR EXCELLENT MAJESTY, MY principal end being to do your Majesty service,... | |
 | Christopher Wordsworth (DD.) - 1839 - 686 pages
...not over liberal ' 8 Not over liberal.] " My good old mistress was wont to call me her tratckcandle, because it pleased her to say, I did continually burn : and yet <ie suffered me to waste almost to nothing." Sir F. Bacon to king James, A. 0. 1612. • • A company... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...judgment, or elocution, or method, or any of those powers, yet my offering is care and observance : Godey si м»у, leis. TO THE KINO. IT MAT PLEASE TOUR EXCELLENT MAJESTY, My principal end being to do your... | |
 | 1842 - 954 pages
...popularity. It must have been from * ' My good old mistress,' said Sir Francis Bacon to King James in 1612, ' was wont to call me her watch candle, because it pleased...and yet she suffered me to waste almost to nothing.' ( Wordsworth's Eccl. Biog. iv. 70, n.) Sbe kept Sir Francis Washington at Paris, because sbe found... | |
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Your majesty may truly perceive, that, though I cannot challenge to myself either invention, or judgment, or elocution, or method, or any of those powers; yet my offering is care and observance : and as my good old mistress was wont to call me her watch-candle,... 
