The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen16W. Pickering, 1834 |
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... Sir John Villiers . Finance . Civil List . Lord Chancellor . Wrenham . Dulwich . Dutch merchants . Lord Suffolk . Buckingham receives £ 20,000 for the place of Lord Treasurer . Bacon's judicial exertions . Buckingham's interference ...
... Sir John Villiers . Finance . Civil List . Lord Chancellor . Wrenham . Dulwich . Dutch merchants . Lord Suffolk . Buckingham receives £ 20,000 for the place of Lord Treasurer . Bacon's judicial exertions . Buckingham's interference ...
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... Bacon's works after his retire- ment . Gondomar . D'Effiat . Sir Julius Cæsar . Selden . Ben Jonson . Meautys . Bacon's pardon . Death of James . Decline of Bacon's health . Apothegms . Psalms . Confession of Faith . Prayers . Student's ...
... Bacon's works after his retire- ment . Gondomar . D'Effiat . Sir Julius Cæsar . Selden . Ben Jonson . Meautys . Bacon's pardon . Death of James . Decline of Bacon's health . Apothegms . Psalms . Confession of Faith . Prayers . Student's ...
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Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. to Sir Robert Cecil , and to his noble friend Lord Essex , to further his suit . To the Lord Keeper Puckering he applied as to a lawyer , having no sympathy with his pursuits or value for his ...
Lord Chancellor of England Francis Bacon. to Sir Robert Cecil , and to his noble friend Lord Essex , to further his suit . To the Lord Keeper Puckering he applied as to a lawyer , having no sympathy with his pursuits or value for his ...
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... Sir Robert's mes- senger . Essex , with all the zeal of his noble and ardent nature , endeavoured to influence the Queen on behalf of his friend , by every power which he possessed over her affections and her understanding ; ( b ) ...
... Sir Robert's mes- senger . Essex , with all the zeal of his noble and ardent nature , endeavoured to influence the Queen on behalf of his friend , by every power which he possessed over her affections and her understanding ; ( b ) ...
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... Bacon's merit , or the generous warmth of his noble patron touched the heart of the lady , who , fortunately for Bacon , afterwards became the wife of his great rival , Sir Edward Coke . ( b ) In this year he seems to have been in great ...
... Bacon's merit , or the generous warmth of his noble patron touched the heart of the lady , who , fortunately for Bacon , afterwards became the wife of his great rival , Sir Edward Coke . ( b ) In this year he seems to have been in great ...
Términos y frases comunes
Advancement of Learning affection Alban Anthony Bacon appointment Atheism Attorney Augmentis body Buckingham cause Cecil Chancery charge common confess counsel court death desire divine doth duty Earl Earl of Essex edition Egerton Elizabeth endeavours England épices Essays favour Francis Bacon give Gorhambury grace Gray's Inn hath honour hope humble judge judgment Julius Cæsar justice Justitia Universalis King King's knowledge labours letter Lord Bacon Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper lord of Essex Lord Treasurer lordship majesty majesty's matter ment mind nature never noble Novum Organum observations opinion parliament person philosophy pleasure present prince published quæ Queen Rawley reason received respect says servant shew Sir Edward Coke Sir Francis Sir Francis Bacon Sir Thomas speak speech spirit Star Chamber suitors things thought tion tract true truth unto Villiers wherein whereof wisdom
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Página xxxix - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Página xvi - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Página cdlix - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove...
Página xxix - ... more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not 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 more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Página cdxliv - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Página vii - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who — having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator,) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of Nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs...
Página ccxlv - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Página ccxxxvi - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand, and to rest himself ; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...