The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volumen12W. Pickering, 1830 |
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... direction , yet it is that which is best to me , being no man of war , and ignorant in the parti- culars of state : for a man may by the eye set up the white right in the midst of the butt , though he be no archer . Therefore I will ...
... direction , yet it is that which is best to me , being no man of war , and ignorant in the parti- culars of state : for a man may by the eye set up the white right in the midst of the butt , though he be no archer . Therefore I will ...
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... direction is once given , it shall be pursued and performed ; and your majesty shall only be troubled with the true care of a king , which is to think what you would have done in chief , and not how , for the pas- sages . I do presume ...
... direction is once given , it shall be pursued and performed ; and your majesty shall only be troubled with the true care of a king , which is to think what you would have done in chief , and not how , for the pas- sages . I do presume ...
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... direction in that eminent place of the Favourite ; drawn from him , at the intreaty of the Duke himself , by much importunity . [ Inserted in Vol . VI . p . 400. ] Sir Francis Bacon's Considerations , touching the Queen's Service in ...
... direction in that eminent place of the Favourite ; drawn from him , at the intreaty of the Duke himself , by much importunity . [ Inserted in Vol . VI . p . 400. ] Sir Francis Bacon's Considerations , touching the Queen's Service in ...
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... directions , which I was ever careful to have , and keep . For , as I have often said to your majesty , I was towards you but as a bucket , and a cistern to draw forth , and conserve , and yourself was the fountain . Unto this comfort ...
... directions , which I was ever careful to have , and keep . For , as I have often said to your majesty , I was towards you but as a bucket , and a cistern to draw forth , and conserve , and yourself was the fountain . Unto this comfort ...
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... directions in readiness ; wherein I cannot forget what the poet Martial saith ; " O ! quantum est subitis casibus ingenium ! " signifying , that accident is many times more subtle than foresight , and over - reacheth expectation : and ...
... directions in readiness ; wherein I cannot forget what the poet Martial saith ; " O ! quantum est subitis casibus ingenium ! " signifying , that accident is many times more subtle than foresight , and over - reacheth expectation : and ...
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Página 6 - And if your lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep.
Página 102 - Mr. Attorney, I THOUGHT best, once for all, to let you know in plainness what I find of you, and what you shall find of me. You take to yourself a liberty to disgrace and disable my law, my experience, my discretion. What it pleaseth you, I pray, think of me : I am one that knows both mine own wants and other men's ; and it may be, perchance, that mine mend, when others stand at a stay.
Página 448 - Henry VII." that of the " Essays," being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not, for these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.
Página 5 - My Lord, With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do 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.
Página 478 - I desire your Lordship also to think that though I confess I love some things much better than I love your Lordship, as the Queen's service, her quiet and contentment, her honour, her favour, the good of my country, and the like, yet I love few persons better than yourself, both for gratitude's sake, and for your own virtues, which cannot hurt but by accident or abuse.
Página 117 - ... be popular, and not by any fashions of his own : he is thought somewhat general in his favours ; and his virtue of access is rather, because he is much abroad and in press, than that he giveth easy audience. He hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms and occasions, faster perhaps than policy will well bear.
Página 279 - My ambition now I shall only put upon my pen, whereby I shall be able to maintain memory and merit of the times succeeding.
Página 126 - 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.
Página 67 - And for the briberies and gifts wherewith I am charged, when the books of hearts shall be opened, I hope I shall not be found to have the troubled fountain of a corrupt heart, in a depraved habit of taking rewards to pervert justice ; howsoever...
Página 81 - Wherefore since I have only taken upon me to ring a bell, to call other wits together, (which is the meanest office,) it cannot but be consonant to my desire, to have that bell heard as far as can be.