History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... 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 Albans . At twelve years old he became a member of Trinity College , Cambridge , and continued ...
... 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 Albans . At twelve years old he became a member of Trinity College , Cambridge , and continued ...
Page vi
... Latin ) , " De Augmentis Scientiarum . " This was meant to form one section of the great work which Bacon planned , but never was able to complete , the " Instauratio Magna , " or a great reconstruc- tion of Science . In 1606 Bacon ...
... Latin ) , " De Augmentis Scientiarum . " This was meant to form one section of the great work which Bacon planned , but never was able to complete , the " Instauratio Magna , " or a great reconstruc- tion of Science . In 1606 Bacon ...
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... 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 character of his ...
... 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 character of his ...
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... 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 which precedes the Sermones Fideles ) , and was designed to make 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 which precedes the Sermones Fideles ) , and was designed to make the ...
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... 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 in like verse ; and that as speaking in his own 15 person , but in a style of scorn and sport ...
... 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 in like verse ; and that as speaking in his own 15 person , but in a style of scorn and sport ...
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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.