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 vii
... duties ; not carefully composed by a student in his pensive citadel , but by a daily " delver in the laborious mine of the law , " where the vexed printer frequently waited till the impatient client was despatched ; and that , to ...
... duties ; not carefully composed by a student in his pensive citadel , but by a daily " delver in the laborious mine of the law , " where the vexed printer frequently waited till the impatient client was despatched ; and that , to ...
Page xxii
... duty remembered , and my humble thanks pre- pleased your lordship , at my being with you , to vouchsafe me , above my degree and desert : my letter hath no further errand but to commend unto your lordship the remembrance of my suit ...
... duty remembered , and my humble thanks pre- pleased your lordship , at my being with you , to vouchsafe me , above my degree and desert : my letter hath no further errand but to commend unto your lordship the remembrance of my suit ...
Page xxiii
... duty ( and so do stand affected ) rather to prove your lordship's admonition , effectual in my doings hereafter , than causeless by excusing what is past . And yet ( with your lordship's pardon humbly set forth that said motion in such ...
... duty ( and so do stand affected ) rather to prove your lordship's admonition , effectual in my doings hereafter , than causeless by excusing what is past . And yet ( with your lordship's pardon humbly set forth that said motion in such ...
Page xxiv
... duty to visit and strengthen the roots and foundation of their science , productive of such blessings to themselves and to the community ; and he submitted to the king that the most sacred trust to sovereign power consisted in the ...
... duty to visit and strengthen the roots and foundation of their science , productive of such blessings to themselves and to the community ; and he submitted to the king that the most sacred trust to sovereign power consisted in the ...
Page xxvi
... duty in parliament . Apolo- gizing for his boldness and plainness , he told the queen , " that his mind turned upon other wheels than those of profit ; that he sought no great mat - him a mean and dependence ; " but he did not rest ter ...
... duty in parliament . Apolo- gizing for his boldness and plainness , he told the queen , " that his mind turned upon other wheels than those of profit ; that he sought no great mat - him a mean and dependence ; " but he did not rest ter ...
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