The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 3Carey and Hart, 1844 |
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... grants and decrees , hath assured your lordship , she will forbid and not suffer your ruin . 6. As I have heard her majesty to be a prince of that magnanimity , that she will spare the service of the ablest subject or peer , where she ...
... grants and decrees , hath assured your lordship , she will forbid and not suffer your ruin . 6. As I have heard her majesty to be a prince of that magnanimity , that she will spare the service of the ablest subject or peer , where she ...
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... grant my desire . I prostrate myself at your majesty's feet ; I , your ancient servant , now sixty - four years old in age , and three years and five months old in misery . I desire not from your majesty means , former grace , in ...
... grant my desire . I prostrate myself at your majesty's feet ; I , your ancient servant , now sixty - four years old in age , and three years and five months old in misery . I desire not from your majesty means , former grace , in ...
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... grants from yourself , as by your commendation to others , which I have had TO MY LORD OF ESSEX . Most Honourable and my singular GOOD LORD , thanks for your lordship's remembering my name I cannot but importune your lordship with to my ...
... grants from yourself , as by your commendation to others , which I have had TO MY LORD OF ESSEX . Most Honourable and my singular GOOD LORD , thanks for your lordship's remembering my name I cannot but importune your lordship with to my ...
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... grant that it will be this benefit to you . Last- ly , to be plain with your lordship , for the gentle- men are such as I am beholding to , nothing can make the queen or the world think so much that you are come to a provident care of ...
... grant that it will be this benefit to you . Last- ly , to be plain with your lordship , for the gentle- men are such as I am beholding to , nothing can make the queen or the world think so much that you are come to a provident care of ...
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... grant them all . The first is , That if there be any merit in draw- ing on that match , your majesty would bestow the thanks not upon the zeal of Sir Edward Coke to please your majesty , nor upon the eloquent persua- sions or ...
... grant them all . The first is , That if there be any merit in draw- ing on that match , your majesty would bestow the thanks not upon the zeal of Sir Edward Coke to please your majesty , nor upon the eloquent persua- sions or ...
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ALBAN answer Attorney bounden Canc cause chief justice command conceive council court desire devoted servant doth duty Earl EARL OF BUCKINGHAM Endorsed EXCELLENT MAJESTY faithful servant farther favour feoffee feoffment friend and faithful friend and servant give glad Gorhambury grace grant Gray's Inn Harl heir HONOURABLE LORD hope humble humbly pray judges judgment king king's land letter LORD CHANCELLOR LORD KEEPER lord treasurer lordship lordship's faithful friend lordship's most obliged majesty hath MARQUIS OF BUCKINGHAM matter mind Newmarket noble obliged friend occasion opinion pardon Parliament patent pleased pray your lordship preserve and prosper prince reason received rest Your lordship's seal SIR FRANCIS BACON SIR GEORGE VILLIERS Sir John Sir Thomas Star Chamber statute tenant thanks things thought tion TOBIE MATTHEW touching unto your lordship VERULAM wherein whereof wish words writ write York House
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Page 221 - I hold every man a debtor to his profession; from the which, as men of course do seek to receive countenance and profit, so ought they of duty to endeavor themselves, by way of amends, to be a help and ornament thereunto.
Page 348 - It then begins almost imperceptibly to conceive and suppose that every thing is similar to the few objects which have taken possession of the mind; whilst it is very slow and unfit for the transition to the remote and heterogeneous instances, by which axioms are tried as by fire, unless the office be imposed upon it by severe regulations, and a powerful authority. 48. The human understanding is active and cannot halt or rest, but even, though without effect, still presses forward. Thus we cannot...
Page 223 - IT were infinite for the law to judge the causes of causes, and their impulsions one of another : therefore it contenteth itself with the immediate cause ; and judgeth of acts by that, without looking to any further degree.
Page 391 - But things which are equal to the same are equal to one another || ; therefore CA is equal to CB ; wherefore CA,
Page 345 - MAN, as the minister and Interpreter of Nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the Order of Nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more.
Page 22 - I have brought unto you gemitum columbcz from others ; now I bring it from myself. I fly unto Your Majesty with the wings of a dove, which once within these seven days I thought would have carried me a higher flight. "When I enter into myself I find not the materials of such a tempest as is comen upon me. I have been, as Your Majesty knoweth best, never author of any immoderate counsel, but always desired to have things carried suavibus modis.
Page 283 - ... it be authority by his will to declare and appoint uses, and then though it were knight's service land, he might dispose the whole.
Page 238 - ALL crimes have their conception in a corrupt intent, and have their consummation and issuing in some particular fact ; which though it be not the fact at which the intention of the malefactor levelled, yet the law giveth him no advantage of that error if another particular ensue of as high a nature.
Page 347 - ... for we regard all the systems of philosophy hitherto received or imagined, as so many plays brought out and performed, creating fictitious and theatrical worlds. Nor do we speak only of the present systems, or of the philosophy and sects of the ancients, since numerous other plays of a similar nature can be still composed and made to agree with each other, the causes of the most opposite errors being generally the same. Nor, again, do we allude merely to general systems, but also to many elements...
Page 41 - I am not wholly out of hope," said he in a letter to the King, "that my Lord Coke himself, when I have in some dark manner put him in doubt that he shall be left alone, will not be singular.