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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Page xi
... true genius of those ministers , who pretending to merit themselves , are jealous of it in all other men who are equally poor - spirited and aspiring . The whole court was at this time rent into fac- + tions , headed on one part by the ...
... true genius of those ministers , who pretending to merit themselves , are jealous of it in all other men who are equally poor - spirited and aspiring . The whole court was at this time rent into fac- + tions , headed on one part by the ...
Page xvii
... true , Bacon was not the man who should have pub- lished those truths . He had been long and highly indebted to the earl's friendship , almost beyond the example even of that age . In another man this proceeding might not have been ...
... true , Bacon was not the man who should have pub- lished those truths . He had been long and highly indebted to the earl's friendship , almost beyond the example even of that age . In another man this proceeding might not have been ...
Page xxv
... true valour on any ; he meant to make himself formidable to his people , that they might not discover how much he was afraid of them . Though he did not succeed in the union of the kingdoms , he found his judges , in an affair of a simi ...
... true valour on any ; he meant to make himself formidable to his people , that they might not discover how much he was afraid of them . Though he did not succeed in the union of the kingdoms , he found his judges , in an affair of a simi ...
Page xxxiv
... true he found his account in this service ; as it proved the surest means of his own preferment : but , to a great and worthy mind , preferment so meanly obtained is disgrace , only a little disguised and gilded over . The Lord ...
... true he found his account in this service ; as it proved the surest means of his own preferment : but , to a great and worthy mind , preferment so meanly obtained is disgrace , only a little disguised and gilded over . The Lord ...
Page xxxvii
... true genius of those times , and serves to shew in what miserable subjection the fa- vourite held all those who were in public employ- ments . He was upon the point of ruining Sir Francis Bacon , the person he had just contributed to ...
... true genius of those times , and serves to shew in what miserable subjection the fa- vourite held all those who were in public employ- ments . He was upon the point of ruining Sir Francis Bacon , the person he had just contributed to ...
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