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This edition comprised only ten essays , nor were the essays increased to their present number or brought into their present form till the third edition in 1625. These short compositions are masterpieces both of thought and expression ...
This edition comprised only ten essays , nor were the essays increased to their present number or brought into their present form till the third edition in 1625. These short compositions are masterpieces both of thought and expression ...
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In a brief notice like the present no examination of Bacon's conduct can be given , either in the prosecution of the Earl of Essex , for his part in which he has been severely censured , or in those matters which brought about his fall ...
In a brief notice like the present no examination of Bacon's conduct can be given , either in the prosecution of the Earl of Essex , for his part in which he has been severely censured , or in those matters which brought about his fall ...
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3 Bernard André ( d . about 1521 ) was born at Toulouse and was an Augustinian friar . He was present in London when Henry VII entered the city after the Battle of Bosworth Field . In 1496 he became tutor to Prince Arthur , and wrote a ...
3 Bernard André ( d . about 1521 ) was born at Toulouse and was an Augustinian friar . He was present in London when Henry VII entered the city after the Battle of Bosworth Field . In 1496 he became tutor to Prince Arthur , and wrote a ...
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manded , took place in time for the small succours , which that nobleman brought with him , to be present at the battle of St Aubin , July 28th , 1488. But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date ...
manded , took place in time for the small succours , which that nobleman brought with him , to be present at the battle of St Aubin , July 28th , 1488. But these were the only English engaged in the cause of Brittany up to that date ...
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... them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him , and vehemently suspected to have been the impoisoner of his wife , thereby to make vacant his bed , for a marriage within the degrees forbidden .
... them his lawful King in the present , and the other in the future , failing of him , and vehemently suspected to have been the impoisoner of his wife , thereby to make vacant his bed , for a marriage within the degrees forbidden .
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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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