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 v
... labours , impressed me with a feeling of his consciousness of ill - usage , and a conviction that the time would arrive when justice would be done to his memory . Sir Philip Sydney says , " I never read the old song of Percy and Douglas ...
... labours , impressed me with a feeling of his consciousness of ill - usage , and a conviction that the time would arrive when justice would be done to his memory . Sir Philip Sydney says , " I never read the old song of Percy and Douglas ...
Page vii
... labours ; but I think of it with that satisfaction ever attendant upon the hope of being an instrument of good . " Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring . Merit and good works is the end of man's motion , and ...
... labours ; but I think of it with that satisfaction ever attendant upon the hope of being an instrument of good . " Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring . Merit and good works is the end of man's motion , and ...
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... labours of the present editor , with all his zeal and tenfold his ability ; with power equal to the work , and leisure to pursue it , will dig the statue from the rubbish which may yet deface it ; and , obliterating one by one the ...
... labours of the present editor , with all his zeal and tenfold his ability ; with power equal to the work , and leisure to pursue it , will dig the statue from the rubbish which may yet deface it ; and , obliterating one by one the ...
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... labour , and in which he after- FROM HIS ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE TILL HIS wards was eminently distinguished , not only by his professional exertions and honours , but by his valuable works upon different practical parts of the law ...
... labour , and in which he after- FROM HIS ENTRANCE INTO PUBLIC LIFE TILL HIS wards was eminently distinguished , not only by his professional exertions and honours , but by his valuable works upon different practical parts of the law ...
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... labour must lie of his establishment , and upon of Fleming . me the disgrace will light of his being refused . Therefore I pray your lordship , now account me not as a solicitor only of my friend's cause , but as a party interested in ...
... labour must lie of his establishment , and upon of Fleming . me the disgrace will light of his being refused . Therefore I pray your lordship , now account me not as a solicitor only of my friend's cause , but as a party interested in ...
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