The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a Life of the Author, Volume 1Carey and Hart, 1844 |
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Page xix
... continued his inquiries into the laws of nature , 5 and planned his immortal work upon which he laboured during the greater part of his life , and ultimately published when he was chancellor , saying , " I have held up a light in the ...
... continued his inquiries into the laws of nature , 5 and planned his immortal work upon which he laboured during the greater part of his life , and ultimately published when he was chancellor , saying , " I have held up a light in the ...
Page xxii
... continued to occupy his thoughts.1 Whilst he was engaged in these meditations his father died suddenly , on the 20th February , He instantly returned to England . 1579 . CHAPTER II . Law and politics were the two roads open be- fore him ...
... continued to occupy his thoughts.1 Whilst he was engaged in these meditations his father died suddenly , on the 20th February , He instantly returned to England . 1579 . CHAPTER II . Law and politics were the two roads open be- fore him ...
Page xxiii
... continued his meditations upon his immortal work , which he had projected when in the university . This course of legal and philosophical research was accompanied with such sweetness and affa- , bility of deportment , that he gained the ...
... continued his meditations upon his immortal work , which he had projected when in the university . This course of legal and philosophical research was accompanied with such sweetness and affa- , bility of deportment , that he gained the ...
Page xxix
... continued without intermission his parliamentary exertions , there not having been during the latter part of the queen's reign any debate in which he was not a distinguished speaker , or any important committee of which he was not an ...
... continued without intermission his parliamentary exertions , there not having been during the latter part of the queen's reign any debate in which he was not a distinguished speaker , or any important committee of which he was not an ...
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... continued him still about you for society to yourself , and for an ho- nour and ornament to your attendance and court in the eyes of your people , and in the eyes of foreign ambassadors , then were he in his right element ; for , to ...
... continued him still about you for society to yourself , and for an ho- nour and ornament to your attendance and court in the eyes of your people , and in the eyes of foreign ambassadors , then were he in his right element ; for , to ...
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