Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volumen1 |
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... tion ; -plying all the arts of flattery to gain official advance- ment by royal and courtly favour ; -entering the House of Commons , and displaying powers of oratory of which he had been unconscious ; -seduced by the love of popular ...
... tion ; -plying all the arts of flattery to gain official advance- ment by royal and courtly favour ; -entering the House of Commons , and displaying powers of oratory of which he had been unconscious ; -seduced by the love of popular ...
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... tion on every member , of a profession to assist in improving the science in which he has successfully practised . He dedi- cated this work to the Queen , as a sheaf and cluster of fruit of the favourable season enjoyed by the nation ...
... tion on every member , of a profession to assist in improving the science in which he has successfully practised . He dedi- cated this work to the Queen , as a sheaf and cluster of fruit of the favourable season enjoyed by the nation ...
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... tion did not seduce him from his greater purposes . " As for my Essays , and some other particulars of that nature , " said he , " I count them but as the recreations of my other studies , and in that manner purpose to continue them ...
... tion did not seduce him from his greater purposes . " As for my Essays , and some other particulars of that nature , " said he , " I count them but as the recreations of my other studies , and in that manner purpose to continue them ...
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... tion of a youthful indiscretion . All was now bright hope with him for the future - without self - reproach when he reflected on the past . CHAPTER LIII . CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD BACON TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH ...
... tion of a youthful indiscretion . All was now bright hope with him for the future - without self - reproach when he reflected on the past . CHAPTER LIII . CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD BACON TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH ...
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... tion . " It will be necessary to do little more than notice the heads of the defence or panegyric . 1 . Bacon did well in preferring the Queen to Essex , as she had been so kind to him ; and , instead of pampering him with good things ...
... tion . " It will be necessary to do little more than notice the heads of the defence or panegyric . 1 . Bacon did well in preferring the Queen to Essex , as she had been so kind to him ; and , instead of pampering him with good things ...
Términos y frases comunes
answer appointed attend Attorney Attorney-General Bacon Bishop Buckingham cause charge Charles Chief Justice Clarendon command Common Pleas Council counsel Court of Chancery Coventry Cromwell Crown defendant delivered duty Earl Essex favour Finch friends Gray's Inn Hacket hath Hist honour House of Commons House of Lords House of Peers impeachment James Judges King kingdom lawyers letter Littleton Long Parliament Lord Chancellor Lord Keeper Lords Commissioners Lordship Majesty Majesty's Master ment never oath offence opinion ordinance Oxford Parl parliament party passed Peers person Petition Petition of Right present Prince Privy proceedings profession prosecution Queen received reign resolved respect royal says Seal of England sent sentence Serjeant Sir Edward Coke Sir Richard Lane Sir Thomas Solicitor Sovereign Speaker speech Star Chamber Strafford summoned thought tion took unto voted Westminster Whitelock Widdrington Williams woolsack writs
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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.