The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1Parry & McMillan, 1854 |
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Page xvii
... answered with a maturity above his years , and with such gravity that the queen would often call him her young lord keeper . Upon the queen's asking him , when a child , how old he was , he answered , " two years younger than your ...
... answered with a maturity above his years , and with such gravity that the queen would often call him her young lord keeper . Upon the queen's asking him , when a child , how old he was , he answered , " two years younger than your ...
Page xviii
... answered , ( as was true , ) that he bade another tell it . Whereunto he said . so I thought ; for , said he , himself could not have put on so strong an imagination , but by telling the other the card , who believed that the jug- gler ...
... answered , ( as was true , ) that he bade another tell it . Whereunto he said . so I thought ; for , said he , himself could not have put on so strong an imagination , but by telling the other the card , who believed that the jug- gler ...
Page xxii
... answered by impudence ; hardness of the viscera , by relentlessness ; blear - eyes , by envy ; and an evil eye , their down look , and incurvation of the body , by atheism , as no longer , says he , looking up to heaven ; the trembling ...
... answered by impudence ; hardness of the viscera , by relentlessness ; blear - eyes , by envy ; and an evil eye , their down look , and incurvation of the body , by atheism , as no longer , says he , looking up to heaven ; the trembling ...
Page xxxvi
... answered again with good shew , that because it was considered how I stood tied to my lord of Essex , therefore that part was thought fittest for me , which did him least hurt ; for that whereas all the rest was matter of charge and ac ...
... answered again with good shew , that because it was considered how I stood tied to my lord of Essex , therefore that part was thought fittest for me , which did him least hurt ; for that whereas all the rest was matter of charge and ac ...
Page xxxvii
... answer to these charges , Essex , on his knees , declared that , ever since it had pleased her majesty to remove that cup from him , he had laid aside all thought of justifying himself , or of mak- ing any contestation with his ...
... answer to these charges , Essex , on his knees , declared that , ever since it had pleased her majesty to remove that cup from him , he had laid aside all thought of justifying himself , or of mak- ing any contestation with his ...
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