Bacon and Essex: A Sketch of Bacon's Earlier LifeSeeley, Jackson, & Halliday, 1877 - 304 من الصفحات |
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... attempt anything more than a sketch would have been a task far exceed- ing the little leisure at my disposal ; but sketch though it is ( full of imperfections , and probably not without some minor inaccuracies ) , it will , I think ...
... attempt anything more than a sketch would have been a task far exceed- ing the little leisure at my disposal ; but sketch though it is ( full of imperfections , and probably not without some minor inaccuracies ) , it will , I think ...
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... attempt to bring Mary Stuart to the block by forgeries . Sir Robert Cecil urges his intimate friend Carew to entrap the young Earl of Desmond into a conspiracy for the purpose of getting rid of him . To be a politician meant in those ...
... attempt to bring Mary Stuart to the block by forgeries . Sir Robert Cecil urges his intimate friend Carew to entrap the young Earl of Desmond into a conspiracy for the purpose of getting rid of him . To be a politician meant in those ...
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... attempted to go back , all together encompassing and clogging resistance , suc- ceeded in breaking or bending the purest and proudest spirit . The following pages will attempt to shew how Bacon was thus bent and Essex was thus broken ...
... attempted to go back , all together encompassing and clogging resistance , suc- ceeded in breaking or bending the purest and proudest spirit . The following pages will attempt to shew how Bacon was thus bent and Essex was thus broken ...
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... attempted to explain in his boyhood . Another tale about the rumbling sound pro- duced by shouting down a conduit in St. James's Fields , and another about the multiplication of echoes noted by him at some place near Paris , make up ...
... attempted to explain in his boyhood . Another tale about the rumbling sound pro- duced by shouting down a conduit in St. James's Fields , and another about the multiplication of echoes noted by him at some place near Paris , make up ...
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... attempts at ease , Bacon appears to have moved uneasily in the active world , and to have felt at home only in philosophy . In 1605 , writing to Sir Thomas Bodley , he says : - " I think no man may more truly say with the Psalm , multum ...
... attempts at ease , Bacon appears to have moved uneasily in the active world , and to have felt at home only in philosophy . In 1605 , writing to Sir Thomas Bodley , he says : - " I think no man may more truly say with the Psalm , multum ...
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action advice afterwards answer Anthony Bacon Apology appointment assure believe Blunt brother Burghley Carew cause charge command confession Council counsellor course danger Davers Declaration desire disgrace dissimulation doubt Earl of Essex Earl's effect Egerton enemies England Essex House evidence expedition fear former fortune Francis Bacon friends Fynes Moryson give Government hand hath honour hope humour intended Ireland Irish Island voyage journey knew letter Lord Keeper Lord of Essex Lord Treasurer Lord's Lordship Majesty matter mind Montjoy Munster nature never occasion October opinion passed passion person prince proceeding purpose Queen quoted Ralegh rebels resolved Rowland White says Secretary seems shew Sir Robert Cecil Sir Walter Ralegh Southampton sovereign Spedding speech Star Chamber surprise the Court suspicion Sydney Papers thereof things thought traitor treason Trott true truth Tyrone unto warned wherein words writes written
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الصفحة 2 - ... declaration of the practices and treasons attempted and committed by Robert, late Earl of Essex, and his complices...
الصفحة 23 - I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it...
الصفحة 45 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
الصفحة 5 - He bade me take no care for that, and pressed it : whereupon I said, " My lord, I see I must be your " homager, and hold land of your gift ; but do you " know the manner of doing homage in law? Always " it is with a saving of his faith to the king and his " other lords ; and therefore, my lord, said I, I can be " no more yours than I was, and it must be with the " ancient savings: and if 1 grow to be a rich man, " you will give me leave to give it back again to some " of your unrewarded followers.
الصفحة 22 - I commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed ; and I do not fear that action shall impair it, because I account my ordinary course of study and meditation to be more painful than most parts of action are.
الصفحة 174 - That because it was considered how I stood tied to my lord of Essex, therefore that part was thought fittest for me, which did him least hurt: for that whereas all the rest was matter of charge and accusation, this only was but matter of caveat and admonition. Wherewith though I was in mine own mind little satisfied, because I knew well a man were better to be charged with some faults, than admonished of some others: yet the conclusion binding upon the queen's pleasure directly, volens nolens...
الصفحة 159 - I) it is now far too late, the matter is cold and hath taken too much wind; whereat she seemed again offended and rose from me, and that resolution for a while continued; and after, in the beginning of Midsummer term, I attending her, and finding her settled in that resolution (which I heard of also otherwise), she falling upon the like speech, it is true that, seeing no other remedy, I said to her slightly, Why, Madam, if you will needs have a proceeding, you were best have it in some such sort...
الصفحة 113 - I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey, as it is possible for a man to ground a judgment upon future contingents.
الصفحة 55 - I have learned that it may be redeemed. For means, I value that most ; and the rather, because I am purposed, not to follow the practice of the law, if her Majesty command me in any particular, I shall be ready to do her willing service ; and my reason is only, because it drinketh too much time, which I have dedicated to better purposes.
الصفحة 238 - I put in writing, commanded me to pen that book, which was published for the better satisfaction of the world ; which I did, but so, as never secretary had more particular and express directions and instructions in every point how to guide my hand in it ; and not only so, but after...