The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1Parry & McMillan, 1854 |
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Page xvii
... excellent scholar , and the translator , from the Italian , of various sermons of Ochinus , a learned divine ; and , from the Latin , of Bishop Jewel's Apologia , recommended by Archbishop Parker for general use.3 It was his good ...
... excellent scholar , and the translator , from the Italian , of various sermons of Ochinus , a learned divine ; and , from the Latin , of Bishop Jewel's Apologia , recommended by Archbishop Parker for general use.3 It was his good ...
Page xxxiii
... excellent ear , and was patientissimus veri , and assured me the case of the realm required it ; and I think this speech of mine , and the like re- newed afterwards , pricked him to write that apo- logy which is in many men's hands ...
... excellent ear , and was patientissimus veri , and assured me the case of the realm required it ; and I think this speech of mine , and the like re- newed afterwards , pricked him to write that apo- logy which is in many men's hands ...
Page xliv
... excellent balm that did continually distil from her sovereign hands , and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people and not only so , but I took hardness to extenuate , not the fact , for that I durst not , but the danger ...
... excellent balm that did continually distil from her sovereign hands , and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people and not only so , but I took hardness to extenuate , not the fact , for that I durst not , but the danger ...
Page xlv
... excellent in great matters , so she was exquisite in small , noted that I could not forget my ancient respect to my Lord of Essex , in terming him ever my Lord of Essex , my Lord of Essex almost in every page of the book , which she ...
... excellent in great matters , so she was exquisite in small , noted that I could not forget my ancient respect to my Lord of Essex , in terming him ever my Lord of Essex , my Lord of Essex almost in every page of the book , which she ...
Page liii
... excellent in the world , surviving all the shocks and accidents and fluctuations of opinion , and raises us above that low and servile fear , which bows only to present power and up- start authority . Rome and Athens filled a place in ...
... excellent in the world , surviving all the shocks and accidents and fluctuations of opinion , and raises us above that low and servile fear , which bows only to present power and up- start authority . Rome and Athens filled a place in ...
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