The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1Parry & McMillan, 1854 |
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Page x
... King's Bench and Chancery . Privy counsellor . Resig- nation and death of Lord Brackley . Lord Keeper . His pecuniary loss . Presents to the monarch and officers of state . To the Lord Keeper . To Judges . Abolition in France of the ...
... King's Bench and Chancery . Privy counsellor . Resig- nation and death of Lord Brackley . Lord Keeper . His pecuniary loss . Presents to the monarch and officers of state . To the Lord Keeper . To Judges . Abolition in France of the ...
Page xlvi
... king . But neither the consciousness of his own pow- ers or of the king's discernment rendered Bacon inert or passive . He used all his influence , both in England and in Scotland , to insure the protec- tion of James . He wrote to the ...
... king . But neither the consciousness of his own pow- ers or of the king's discernment rendered Bacon inert or passive . He used all his influence , both in England and in Scotland , to insure the protec- tion of James . He wrote to the ...
Page lx
... king's friends decessor , he found a charge against two obscure being , however , of no avail , the king , seeing no persons for the crime of duelling . Of this oppor- hope of assistance , in anger dissolved the parlia- tunity he ...
... king's friends decessor , he found a charge against two obscure being , however , of no avail , the king , seeing no persons for the crime of duelling . Of this oppor- hope of assistance , in anger dissolved the parlia- tunity he ...
Page lxi
... king . abolishing injurious restraints upon commerce , and upon civil and religious liberty , and preserving the To be certain of the law , the king resolved to judicial mind free , almost , from the possibility of obtain the opinions ...
... king . abolishing injurious restraints upon commerce , and upon civil and religious liberty , and preserving the To be certain of the law , the king resolved to judicial mind free , almost , from the possibility of obtain the opinions ...
Page lxii
... king's selection of a new favourite . When speaking of the king's clemency , he says , " The king has had too many causes of irritation : he has been irritated by the Powder Treason , when , in the chair of majesty , his vine and olive ...
... king's selection of a new favourite . When speaking of the king's clemency , he says , " The king has had too many causes of irritation : he has been irritated by the Powder Treason , when , in the chair of majesty , his vine and olive ...
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