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She was a lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her translation of Jewel's Apology from Latin into English . Bacon's youth was passed partly in London , and partly at the country residence of the family at Gorhambury near St ...
She was a lady of considerable learning , as was shewn by her translation of Jewel's Apology from Latin into English . Bacon's youth was passed partly in London , and partly at the country residence of the family at Gorhambury near St ...
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In 1605 appeared , in English , his two books , “ Of the Proficience and Advauncement of Learning . ” They were dedicated to King James , and form the basis of what was afterwards expanded into the nine books ( in Latin ) ...
In 1605 appeared , in English , his two books , “ Of the Proficience and Advauncement of Learning . ” They were dedicated to King James , and form the basis of what was afterwards expanded into the nine books ( in Latin ) ...
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... some passages have been inserted in the notes pp . 287 and 296 from Hall's and Grafton's Chronicles . The perusal of a few lines will suffice to shew what a great stride had been made in English prose composition during the reign of ...
... some passages have been inserted in the notes pp . 287 and 296 from Hall's and Grafton's Chronicles . The perusal of a few lines will suffice to shew what a great stride had been made in English prose composition during the reign of ...
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“ for redress of the new impositions raised and levied upon English cloth ” in the lands of the Archduke Philip : This was an impost of a florin for every piece of English cloth imported into the Netherlands . The duty was withdrawn in ...
“ for redress of the new impositions raised and levied upon English cloth ” in the lands of the Archduke Philip : This was an impost of a florin for every piece of English cloth imported into the Netherlands . The duty was withdrawn in ...
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He published a Summary of English Chronicles ” and “ A Survey of London , ” which latter is the best known of his works . He wrote , but was never able to publish , a large Chronicle or History of England . He fell into great poverty ...
He published a Summary of English Chronicles ” and “ A Survey of London , ” which latter is the best known of his works . He wrote , but was never able to publish , a large Chronicle or History of England . He fell into great poverty ...
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Page 272 - He being thus lorded, Not only with what my revenue yielded. But what my power might else exact, — like one Who having unto truth, by telling of it, Made such a sinner of his memory, To credit his own lie...
Page 221 - He was born at Pembroke castle, and lieth buried at Westminster, in one of the stateliest and daintiest monuments of Europe, both for the chapel and for the sepulchre. So that he dwelleth more richly dead, in the monument of his tomb, than he did alive in Richmond, or any of his palaces.
Page 155 - ... creation, as in St. George's Fields, where his own person had been encamped. And for matter of liberality, he did, by open edict, give the goods of all the prisoners unto those that had taken them; either to take them in kind, or compound for them, as they could. After matter of honour and liberality, followed matter of severity and execution. The lord Audley was led from Newgate to Tower-Hill, in a paper coat painted with his own arms; the arms reversed, the coat torn, and he at Tower-Hill beheaded.
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| Title | History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby Pitt press series |
| Author | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) |
| Editor | Joseph Rawson Lumby |
| Published | 1876 |
| Original from | Oxford University |
| Digitized | 19 Sep 2006 |
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