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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... of France was then 30 years old : now that king began his reign 1574 , at the age of 24 years . So that Bacon was then nineteen . nament of the house : as the gentleness and affa- iv The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
... of France was then 30 years old : now that king began his reign 1574 , at the age of 24 years . So that Bacon was then nineteen . nament of the house : as the gentleness and affa- iv The Life of the Lord Chancellor Bacon .
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... king and his minion , rather than do the ministry of his office , by pleading against the earl of Somerset , who had made him solicitor general . Had Bacon refused that invidious part , there were others , among the herd of aspiring and ...
... king and his minion , rather than do the ministry of his office , by pleading against the earl of Somerset , who had made him solicitor general . Had Bacon refused that invidious part , there were others , among the herd of aspiring and ...
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... King James in his sports ; by falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his passions ; by making a ... king of Denmark was descended from a race of merchants , and that an al- liance with his daughter was therefore ...
... King James in his sports ; by falling in frankly , and as it were na- turally , with all his passions ; by making a ... king of Denmark was descended from a race of merchants , and that an al- liance with his daughter was therefore ...
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... king's particular notice , as well as to the ge- neral esteem of his cotemporaries , by publishing a work he had long meditated ; The Progress and Ad- vancement of Learning . The great aim of this treatise , no less original in the ...
... king's particular notice , as well as to the ge- neral esteem of his cotemporaries , by publishing a work he had long meditated ; The Progress and Ad- vancement of Learning . The great aim of this treatise , no less original in the ...
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... king's con- fidence so firmly as to be above all fear of a rival . Besides him , Sir Francis Bacon found a violent and lasting enemy in a man of his own profession , Sir Edward Coke ; who , with great parts , had many and Stephens's ...
... king's con- fidence so firmly as to be above all fear of a rival . Besides him , Sir Francis Bacon found a violent and lasting enemy in a man of his own profession , Sir Edward Coke ; who , with great parts , had many and Stephens's ...
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