The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volume 3Parry & McMillan, 1859 |
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... doth somewhat move me for though I cannot accuse myself , that I am either prodigal or slothful , yet , my health is not to spend , nor my course to get . Lastly , I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends , as I have moderate ...
... doth somewhat move me for though I cannot accuse myself , that I am either prodigal or slothful , yet , my health is not to spend , nor my course to get . Lastly , I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends , as I have moderate ...
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... doth benignly value and assess me at by reason of my sundry wants , and the disadvantage of my nature , being unapt to lay forth the simple store of those inferior gifts which God hath allotted unto me , most to view : yet that it would ...
... doth benignly value and assess me at by reason of my sundry wants , and the disadvantage of my nature , being unapt to lay forth the simple store of those inferior gifts which God hath allotted unto me , most to view : yet that it would ...
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... doth extenuate the honour of a service , course of God's providence in things now depend- being but a rebel and a savage , I differ from him ; ing , and calling into consideration how great for I see the justest triumphs that the Romans ...
... doth extenuate the honour of a service , course of God's providence in things now depend- being but a rebel and a savage , I differ from him ; ing , and calling into consideration how great for I see the justest triumphs that the Romans ...
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... doth ; but when a direction is once given , it shall be pursued and performed ; and your majesty shall only be troubled with the true care of a king , which is to think what you would have done in chief , and not how , for the passages ...
... doth ; but when a direction is once given , it shall be pursued and performed ; and your majesty shall only be troubled with the true care of a king , which is to think what you would have done in chief , and not how , for the passages ...
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... doth , in all ever your man , and counted myself but an usufructuary of myself , the property being yours . And now making myself an oblation , to do with me as may best conduce to the honour of your justice , the honour of your mercy ...
... doth , in all ever your man , and counted myself but an usufructuary of myself , the property being yours . And now making myself an oblation , to do with me as may best conduce to the honour of your justice , the honour of your mercy ...
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