Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... the proper officers . The donors vary in rank from the Lord Keeper Egerton to Charles Smith , dustman , who presents " two bottes of cambric . " A.D. 1595 . DETERMINES TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE . 20 CHAP . LII . LIFE OF LORD BACON .
... the proper officers . The donors vary in rank from the Lord Keeper Egerton to Charles Smith , dustman , who presents " two bottes of cambric . " A.D. 1595 . DETERMINES TO RETIRE FROM PUBLIC LIFE . 20 CHAP . LII . LIFE OF LORD BACON .
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... Charles , and was appointed Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall . The office of Chief Justice of the King's Bench he declined , on account of the moribund condition of Lord Ellesmere . 8 Sir E. Coke was removed Nov. 15 , 1616 , and ...
... Charles , and was appointed Chan- cellor of the Duchy of Cornwall . The office of Chief Justice of the King's Bench he declined , on account of the moribund condition of Lord Ellesmere . 8 Sir E. Coke was removed Nov. 15 , 1616 , and ...
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... Charles and the Infanta of Spain , he yielded to the King's wishes , and did all in his power to promote it . He was thus in the highest possible favour , when suddenly his inextinguishable enmity to Sir E. Coke had nearly accom ...
... Charles and the Infanta of Spain , he yielded to the King's wishes , and did all in his power to promote it . He was thus in the highest possible favour , when suddenly his inextinguishable enmity to Sir E. Coke had nearly accom ...
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... Charles , in a manner for which he has not been suffi- ciently praised , hearing of the deplorable condition of the prostrate Ex - Chancellor , took a more lively interest in pro- curing his liberation than older councillors , who were ...
... Charles , in a manner for which he has not been suffi- ciently praised , hearing of the deplorable condition of the prostrate Ex - Chancellor , took a more lively interest in pro- curing his liberation than older councillors , who were ...
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... Charles had taken in his misfortunes . He sent a copy to the Queen of Bohemia , with a letter strongly showing the feelings of a disgraced minister : " Time was , I had honour without leisure ; and now I have leisure without honour ...
... Charles had taken in his misfortunes . He sent a copy to the Queen of Bohemia , with a letter strongly showing the feelings of a disgraced minister : " Time was , I had honour without leisure ; and now I have leisure without honour ...
Términos y frases comunes
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Página 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Página 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Página 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Página 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Página 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Página 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Página 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Página 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Página 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Página 136 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.