The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England, Volume 1C. and J. Rivington, 1819 |
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... author's life , trivial and unsatisfactory as they may appear , I have yet been obliged to glean here and there in the rubbish of several collections , where they lay scattered , without order or connection . But I shall now no longer ...
... author's life , trivial and unsatisfactory as they may appear , I have yet been obliged to glean here and there in the rubbish of several collections , where they lay scattered , without order or connection . But I shall now no longer ...
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... author's father , I have already given some account : and shall only add here , that he never aspired beyond the rank he brought with him to court . His moderation in all other re- spects was the same . When the queen visited him at his ...
... author's father , I have already given some account : and shall only add here , that he never aspired beyond the rank he brought with him to court . His moderation in all other re- spects was the same . When the queen visited him at his ...
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... . Elizabeth survived her favourite about a year : and , Osborn , if we may credit Osborn , grief and remorse for his P. 459 . VOL . I. the first author tions the story of the ring . The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
... . Elizabeth survived her favourite about a year : and , Osborn , if we may credit Osborn , grief and remorse for his P. 459 . VOL . I. the first author tions the story of the ring . The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
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... author tions the story of the ring . * He is fate accompanied her to the grave . She died the twenty - fourth of March , 1603 , in the fulness of days who men- and honour . Her reign had been long and triumph- ant : and she had through ...
... author tions the story of the ring . * He is fate accompanied her to the grave . She died the twenty - fourth of March , 1603 , in the fulness of days who men- and honour . Her reign had been long and triumph- ant : and she had through ...
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... author's meaning in clear and masculine language . After the sight of a specimen or two , Sir Francis did not encourage him to proceed in it . He himself , after his retirement , very much enlarged and corrected the original , and with ...
... author's meaning in clear and masculine language . After the sight of a specimen or two , Sir Francis did not encourage him to proceed in it . He himself , after his retirement , very much enlarged and corrected the original , and with ...
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