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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... fall to him till near twenty years afterwards . Neither did he obtain any other preferment all this reign : though his winning address , his eloquence , his large and systematical learning had raised him to the admiration of the ...
... fall to him till near twenty years afterwards . Neither did he obtain any other preferment all this reign : though his winning address , his eloquence , his large and systematical learning had raised him to the admiration of the ...
Page xix
... falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his passions ; by making a jest of business ; by entertaining him pleasantly with an ac- count of foreign fashions and follies ; this man gained an absolute ascendant not only ...
... falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his passions ; by making a jest of business ; by entertaining him pleasantly with an ac- count of foreign fashions and follies ; this man gained an absolute ascendant not only ...
Page xxvii
... fall , of Sir Francis Bacon , his character will deserve a place at large in this history . His mother , who could not give him a fortune , be- stowed on him such an education as might enable him to acquire one , especially in a court ...
... fall , of Sir Francis Bacon , his character will deserve a place at large in this history . His mother , who could not give him a fortune , be- stowed on him such an education as might enable him to acquire one , especially in a court ...
Page xlviii
... fall upon him in its utmost rigour . All this he foresaw and felt ; but the king absolutely commanded him not to be present at his trial ; pro- mising on his royal word , to screen him in the last determination ; or if that could not be ...
... fall upon him in its utmost rigour . All this he foresaw and felt ; but the king absolutely commanded him not to be present at his trial ; pro- mising on his royal word , to screen him in the last determination ; or if that could not be ...
Page xlix
... falling a victim to the rapine and insolence of his domestics , which he had weakly connived at , rather than to any ... fall at last , ignobly , by a private hand : after he had been devoted , by the curses of a whole people , and more ...
... falling a victim to the rapine and insolence of his domestics , which he had weakly connived at , rather than to any ... fall at last , ignobly , by a private hand : after he had been devoted , by the curses of a whole people , and more ...
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