 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...it would not counterpoise his other disadvantages." The Queen in reply acknowledged that Bacon had "a great wit and an excellent gift of speech and much...other good learning. But in law she rather thought that he could make show to the uttermost of his knowledge than that he was deep." Actually, the most... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 pages
...Attorney-Generalship, reported back to him that the Queen 'did acknowledge that you had a great wit and excellent gifts of speech, and much other good learning. But in law she rather thought you could make show to the utmost of Burghley, the Queen's closest friend and adviser, and Francis Bacon's uncle who acted in... | |
 | James Hastings, John Alexander Selbie, Louis Herbert Gray - 1910 - 932 pages
...(and successor), Sir Robert Cecil. Queen Eliza tteth herself, it Is recorded, said of him that he had 'a great wit, and an excellent gift of speech, and much other good learning, but in law thought he could rather show to the uttermost of his knowledge, than that he was deep* (Spedding, Lftters... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 660 pages
...contemporaries. " The Queen did acknowledge," says the Earl of Essex, in a letter to Bacon himself, " you had a great wit, and an excellent gift of speech, and much other good learning. But ,n law, she rather thought you could make show to the utmost of your knowledge, than that yon were... | |
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And that she did acknowledge you had a great wit, and an excellent gift of speech, and much other good learning. But in law she rather thought you Could make show to the uttermost of your knowledge, than that you were deep. 
