The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and professional works

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Página 353 - And as he chose well, so he held them up well ; for it is a strange thing, that though he were a dark prince, and infinitely suspicious, and his times full of secret conspiracies and troubles : yet in twenty-four years' reign, he never put down, or discomposed counsellor, or near servant, save only Stanley, the lord chamberlain. As for the disposition of his subjects in general towards him, it stood thus with him ; that of the three affections, which naturally tie the hearts of the subjects to their...
Página 131 - ... suit. The King began also then, as well in wisdom as in justice, to pare a little the privilege of clergy, ordaining that clerks convict should be burned in the hand ; both because they might taste of some corporal punishment, and that they might carry a brand of infamy.
Página 209 - His purposes were two; the one to lay open the abuse; the other, to break the knot of the conspirators. To detect the abuse, there were but two ways; the first, to make it manifest to the world that the duke of York was indeed murdered; the other, to prove that were he dead or alive, yet Perkin was a counterfeit.
Página 320 - My lord, I have heard much of your hospitality, but I see it is greater than the speech : these handsome gentlemen and yeomen, which I see on both sides of me, are sure your menial servants.
Página 143 - Italy, and some other parts abroad, where in effect all is noblesse or peasantry. I speak of people out of towns, and no middle people ; and therefore no good forces of foot : insomuch as they are enforced to employ mercenary bands of Switzers, and the like, for their battalions of foot. Whereby also it comes to pass, that those nations have much people, and few soldiers. Whereas the King saw, that contrariwise it would follow, that England, though much less in territory, yet should have infinitely...
Página 356 - ... than Lewis the Twelfth of France, and more entire and sincere than Ferdinando of Spain. But if you shall change Lewis the Twelfth for Lewis the Eleventh, who lived a little before, then the consort is more perfect. For that Lewis the Eleventh, Ferdinando, and Heury, may be esteemed for the tres magi of kings of those ages.
Página 349 - The people (into whom there is infused for the preservation of monarchies a natural desire to discharge their princes, though it be with the unjust charge of their counsellors and ministers) did impute...
Página 199 - ... to be god-father to his child, and named him Peter. But afterwards, proving a dainty and effeminate youth, he was commonly called by the diminutive of his name Peterkin or Perkin.
Página 289 - A. MEMOIR OF SEBASTIAN CABOT, with a Review of the History of Maritime Discovery...
Página 128 - This court is one of the sagest and noblest institutions of this kingdom. For in the distribution of courts of ordinary justice, besides the high court of parliament, in which distribution the King's bench holdeth the pleas of the crown, the common-place...

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