History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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Page vi
... fortune fell to Bacon's lot . It was in January , 1597 , that he published the first edition of his Essays , the first of those works by which his name became famous in the list of English men of letters . This edition comprised only ...
... fortune fell to Bacon's lot . It was in January , 1597 , that he published the first edition of his Essays , the first of those works by which his name became famous in the list of English men of letters . This edition comprised only ...
Page ix
... fortune , the thought of such a work had been long before his mind . Mr Spedding has published in his edition of Bacon's works , ( Vol . VI . pp . 17 seqq . ) a fragment of such a history , of the existence of which Speed1 , whose ...
... fortune , the thought of such a work had been long before his mind . Mr Spedding has published in his edition of Bacon's works , ( Vol . VI . pp . 17 seqq . ) a fragment of such a history , of the existence of which Speed1 , whose ...
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... fortune by the day ; resolved to 15 rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main , and to use the other two , that of marriage , and that of battle , but as sup- porters , the one to appease secret discontents , and the other to beat ...
... fortune by the day ; resolved to 15 rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main , and to use the other two , that of marriage , and that of battle , but as sup- porters , the one to appease secret discontents , and the other to beat ...
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... fortunes and possessions , which were great to which he was moved also by a kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard , and indeed made the 20 King a bridge to the ...
... fortunes and possessions , which were great to which he was moved also by a kind of gratitude , for that the duke was the man that moved the first stone against the tyranny of King Richard , and indeed made the 20 King a bridge to the ...
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... fortune . This Morton soon after , 5 upon the death of Bourchier , he made archbishop of Can- terbury . And for Fox , he made him lord Keeper of his privy - seal , and afterwards advanced him by degrees , from Exeter to Bath and Wells ...
... fortune . This Morton soon after , 5 upon the death of Bourchier , he made archbishop of Can- terbury . And for Fox , he made him lord Keeper of his privy - seal , and afterwards advanced him by degrees , from Exeter to Bath and Wells ...
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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.