The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works, Volume 4

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Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1869
 

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Page 19 - For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry : 'Proclaim the faults he would not show : Break lock and seal: betray the trust: Keep nothing sacred : 'tis but just The many-headed beast should know.
Page 253 - ... there being more scholars bred, than the state can prefer and employ ; and the active part of that life not bearing a proportion to the preparative, it must needs fall out, that many persons will be bred unfit for other vocations, and unprofitable for that in which they are brought up ; which fills the realm full of indigent, idle, and wanton people, which are but
Page 136 - That the state of knowledge is not prosperous nor greatly advancing, and that a way must be opened for the human understanding entirely different from any hitherto known, and other helps provided, in order that the mind may exercise over the nature of things the authority which properly belongs to it.
Page 411 - ... performances : a man's life is not to be trifled away ; it is to be offered up and sacrificed to honourable services, public merits, good causes, and noble adventures. It is in expense of blood as it is in expense of money ; it is no liberality to make a profusion of money upon every vain occasion, nor no more it is fortitude to make effusion of blood, except the cause be of worth.
Page 381 - ... to recover that strength to the king's prerogative, which it hath had in times past, and which is due unto it.
Page 348 - High Court of Justice shall be constituted as follows: — The first Judges thereof shall be the Lord Chancellor, The Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron...
Page 118 - An effect of peace in fruitful kingdoms, where the stock of people, receiving no consumption nor diminution by war, doth continually multiply and increase, must in the end be a surcharge or overflow of people more than the territories can well maintain ; which many times, insinuating a general necessity and want of means into all estates, doth turn external peace into internal troubles and seditions. Now what an excellent diversion of this inconvenience is...
Page 29 - I have hinted in these notes, that I am not entirely free from a sort of gloomy fits, with a fluttering of the heart and depression of spirits, just as if I knew not what was going to befall me. I can sometimes resist this successfully, but it is better to evade than to combat it. The hang-dog spirit may have originated in the confusion and chucking about of our old furniture, the stripping of walls of pictures, and rooms of ornaments ; the leaving of a house we have so long called our home, is altogether...
Page 134 - Advancement, which you desired ; and a little work of my recreation, which you desired not. My Iitxttturation I reserve for our conference ; it sleeps not. Those works of the Aljifiaf/cl are in my opinion of less use to you where you are now, than at Paris ; and therefore I conceived that you had sent me a kind of tacit countermand of your former request.
Page 313 - Majesty nothing but the scandal of them : to pretend an even carriage between your Majesty's rights and the ease of the people, and to satisfy neither. These courses and others the like, I hope, are gone with the deviser of them ; which have turned your Majesty to inestimable prejudice.

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