 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 866 pages
...without any crooks or angles. And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the books of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found...howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times. And therefore I am resolved, when I come to my answer, not to trick up my innocency, as I writ... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 pages
...Speaker demanded judgment. The * When the fierce general attack first began, Bacon wrote to the king:—" I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain...depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice, however, I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times." f Bacon's Works, Lord Chief Justice... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1855 - 474 pages
...demanded judgment. The * When the fierce general attack first began, Bacon wrote to the king : — " 1 hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain...depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice, however, I may be frail, and partake of the abases of the times." t Bacon's Works. Lord Chief Justice... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1857 - 612 pages
...nobleness, without crooks or angles. And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when ihe books of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found...howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times. And therefore I am resolved, when I come to my answer, not to trick my innocency (as I writ... | |
 | 1857 - 456 pages
...chancellor's own solemn averment, made in a letter to the king at an early stage of the investigation. " For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged,...corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to perfect justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times." While he lay in... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1857 - 426 pages
...without crooks or angles. " And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the books of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found...to pervert justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and par- | take of the abuses of the times. " And therefore I am resolved, when I come to my answer, not... | |
 | John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...Ami for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the hooks of hearts shall be opened, 1 hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain...habit of taking rewards to pervert justice ; howsoever 1 may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times. " And therefore I am resolved, when I come... | |
 | 1857 - 996 pages
...appears but little to hinder our crediting the sufferer's no less pathetic than penitent words : " For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the book of hearts is laid open I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...strayed, to make a fire to offeritwith;" nor to have said to the lords, as he had said to the king, "For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the book of hearts shall be opened, I hope 1 shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking... | |
 | William Hepworth Dixon - 1861 - 52 pages
...text, but in all his declarations and protestations. On the 25th March Bacon wrote to the King : — " For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged,...depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice." Again, on April 16th, he wrote, from a sick-bed, in what appeared to his physicians as the very extremity... | |
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I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times. 
