...receive new vigour between us. My lord chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom : it being one of the essential properties...

...— Lord Chancellor Bacon, says Ho well in his letters, is lately dead of a long languish illness. He died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which did a rgneto great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties of a wise man to provide...

...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties...

...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Ba.con is lately dead of a long languishing weakness; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties...

...immediately on his arrival. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead, of a long and languishing weakness. He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom — it being one of the properties of a...

...BACON, BY A CONTEMPORARY. My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness : he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties...

...his lordship's secretary, afterwards clerk of the king's privy-council. Howell quaintly remarks, " He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties...

...Howell writes to Dr. Prichard, " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him ; which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties...

...character of the great philosopher. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties of...

...Authors differ in their accounts of Bacon's pecuniary means in the last years of his life. Howell says he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him. Wilson, the historian, confirms this account, and adds that Lord Brook denied him beer to quench his...