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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 Gorham- bury 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 Gorham- bury near St ...
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They were dedicated to King James , and form the basis of what was afterwards expanded into the nine books ( in Latin ) , " De Augmentis Scientiarum . " This was meant to form one section of the great work which Bacon planned ...
They were dedicated to King James , and form the basis of what was afterwards expanded into the nine books ( in Latin ) , " De Augmentis Scientiarum . " This was meant to form one section of the great work which Bacon planned ...
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But of the Latin History of Polydore Vergil he seems to have made great use , and to have been led by its inaccuracies into several errors , which in some few points , to be noticed hereafter , have impaired the otherwise accurate ...
But of the Latin History of Polydore Vergil he seems to have made great use , and to have been led by its inaccuracies into several errors , which in some few points , to be noticed hereafter , have impaired the otherwise accurate ...
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It will be seen that in the notes large use has been made of the Latin translation of the Life of Henry VIIth , which was certainly made under Bacon's super- vision , and perhaps partly by himself ( as is indicated in the dedication ...
It will be seen that in the notes large use has been made of the Latin translation of the Life of Henry VIIth , which was certainly made under Bacon's super- vision , and perhaps partly by himself ( as is indicated in the dedication ...
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Who when he turned his back , more like a pedant than an ambassador , dispersed a bitter libel , in Latin verse , against the King ; unto which the King , though he had nothing of a pedant , yet was content to cause an answer to be made ...
Who when he turned his back , more like a pedant than an ambassador , dispersed a bitter libel , in Latin verse , against the King ; unto which the King , though he had nothing of a pedant , yet was content to cause an answer to be made ...
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Page 270 - 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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