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" ... the censure of a judge, coming slow but sure, should be a brand to the guilty, and a crown to the virtuous. You will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own: this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance... "
Letters - Page 72
by Francis Bacon - 1850
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 5

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...without respect of the person's dignity or your own: this disgraceth your gravity, more than itcan advance the opinion of your wit; and so do all actions...law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you shew yourself to be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where you please, since you are able...
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A Second Series of Curiosities of Literature: Consisting of ..., Volume 1

Isaac Disraeli - 1824 - 498 pages
...authority and power with the relish of one who loved them too keenly. " You make the laws too much lean to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant," said Lord Bacon, in his admonitory letter to COKE. In 1616, COKE was out of favour for more causes...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7

Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you shew yourself to be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where you please, since you are able...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 7

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 528 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you shew yourself to be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where you please, since you are able...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 558 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you shew yourself to be a legal tyrant, striking with that weapon where you please, since you are able...
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Eminent British Lawyers

Henry Roscoe - 1830 - 554 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity more than it can advance the opinion...directly with a touch of vain-glory, having no respect for the true end. You make the law to lean too much to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be...
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Lives of Eminent Persons: Consisting of Galileo, Kepler, Newton, Mahomet ...

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 584 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of thé person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...of vain-glory, having no respect to the true end." From the tenour of these remarks, which were addressed to Coke under the form of " an expostulation,"...
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Lives of eminent persons; consisting of Galileo, Kepler

Lives - 1833 - 588 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...of vain-glory, having no respect to the true end." From the tenour of these remarks, which were addressed to Coke under the form of " an expostulation,"...
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Lives of Eminent Persons

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (Great Britain) - 1833 - 606 pages
...will jest at any man in public, without respect of the person's dignity or your own : this disgraceth your gravity, more than it can advance the opinion...of vain-glory, having no respect to the true end." From Ihe tenour of these remarks, which were addressed to Coke under the form of " an expostulation,"...
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Curiosities of Literature

Isaac Disraeli - 1834 - 466 pages
...authority and power with the relish of one who loved them too keenly. ' You make the laws too much lean to your opinion, whereby you show yourself to be a legal tyrant,' said Lord Bacon, in his admonitory letter to COKE. In 1616, COKE was out of favour for more causes...
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