 | 1861 - 746 pages
...heavily against the man who used them. But Bacon wrote : — " For the briberies and gifts wherewith 1 am charged, when the Book of Hearts shall be opened,...depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice." Again he wrote, from a sick bed, in what appeared to his physicians as the very extremity of his life... | |
 | 1861 - 876 pages
...Buckingham, to protect him; even writing to the former thus : — " and for the briberies and gifte wherewith I am charged, when the book of hearts shall...troubled fountain of a corrupt heart in a depraved hnbit of taking rewards to pervert justice. However, I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the... | |
 | 1861 - 804 pages
...heavily against the man who used them. But Bacon wrote : — " For the briberies and gifts wherewith 1 am charged, when the Book of Hearts shall be opened,...be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt lieart in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice." Again he wrote, from a sick bed,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...his mind in these matters, and that what he said for himself may have been really true : — " And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged,...howsoever I may be frail and partake of the abuses of the times." In a draft of a paper to be delivered to the King, before the formal proceedings in the House... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...dead corse, in complete steel Revisit'st thus the glimpses of the moon." — Ham., Act I. Sc. 4. " I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart." — Letter, 1620. " Our pleasure therefore is, who are the head and fountain of justice in our dominions."... | |
 | Charles Dickens - 1869 - 630 pages
...eight steps of honour, I be not precipitated altogether. And Bacon says again in another letter : " For the briberies and gifts, wherewith I am charged,...troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit by taking rewards to pervert justice, howsoever I may be frail and partake of the abuses of the times."... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...profit.' To the King he said: ' For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the books of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found...corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to prevent justice; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuses of the times." We must take into... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...loo thought feigning or fainting. Bat I hope- in God I shall hold out." And to the King (May 25) " For the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the book of heartsshall be opened, I hope I sh.ill not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 672 pages
...nobleness, 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...justice ; howsoever I may be frail, and partake of the abuse of the times. And therefore I am resolved when I come to my answer, not to trick up my innocency... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1874 - 376 pages
...he had taken bribes " to do justice, not to do injustice." In a letter to the King he says : " And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged,...be opened, I hope I shall not be found to have the fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice, howsoever I... | |
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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. 
