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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England - Page xxix
by Francis Bacon - 1834
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."f In 1592, also, appeared Bacon's first publication, as far as is known : ' Certain Observations...
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at hi( devotion.' No man had their affections more in his...every man that heard him was lest he should make an end."f In 1592, also, appeared Bacon's first puhlication, as far as is known: ' Certain Ohservations...
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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ...

Andrew Amos - 1846 - 598 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spake; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who had heard him was, least he should make an end*." * Ben Jonson's "Discoveries.''β€”In the same...
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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ...

Andrew Amos - 1846 - 574 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spake ; and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man who had heard him was, least he should make an end*." * Ben Jonson's "Deeiveries." β€” In the same...
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Lives of Eminent English Judges of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries

William Newland Welsby - 1846 - 576 pages
...Jonson upon Bacon was applied to him β€” that "he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry or pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power ; and the fear of every man that heard him was lest he should come to an end." " The Lord Chancellor...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...man that heard him was, lest he should make an end. My conceit of his person was never increased toward him by his place, or honours, but I have and do...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss : he commanded when he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...mind the vanity of attempting to unite the scarcely reconcileablo characters of the philosopher and the courtier. His high birth and elegant taste unfitted...
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Half-hours with the Best Authors, Volume 2

Charles Knight - 1848 - 428 pages
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Orators of the American Revolution

Elias Lyman Magoon - 1848 - 536 pages
...cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections...man that heard him was lest he should make an end." The patriotism of Samuel Adams was undoubted, and his personal worth was of the most exalted character....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the ...

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 654 pages
...loss. He commanded where he spoke ; and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man bad their affections more in his power. The fear of every...man that heard him was lest he should make an end. J TaM for instance any of the Nervous Aphorisms, in the Novum Organum, and compare it with the sentences...
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