History of the reign of king Henry vii, with notes by J.R. Lumby |
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... sent him to France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went to Paris as English ambassador in September , 1576. But after little more than two years of such life , the prospects of young Bacon became utterly changed by the ...
... sent him to France as one of the suite of Sir Amyas Paulet , who went to Paris as English ambassador in September , 1576. But after little more than two years of such life , the prospects of young Bacon became utterly changed by the ...
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... England . He collected a volume of witty sayings from all quarters , which he sent forth with the title of " Apophthegmata , " and he issued a third edition of his Essays . This was the last work which he was viii INTRODUCTION .
... England . He collected a volume of witty sayings from all quarters , which he sent forth with the title of " Apophthegmata , " and he issued a third edition of his Essays . This was the last work which he was viii INTRODUCTION .
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... sent over to England for the collection of Peter's Pence , and while in England was preferred to the Archdeaconry of Wells . His History of England in Latin consists of twenty - seven books , and was begun by him in the latter years of ...
... sent over to England for the collection of Peter's Pence , and while in England was preferred to the Archdeaconry of Wells . His History of England in Latin consists of twenty - seven books , and was begun by him in the latter years of ...
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... sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as Bacon's narrative represents the story ( p . 49 ) , it was after the mission of Urswick that the siege of Nantes took place . But we know now that the siege of Nantes was ...
... sent Urswick over to France and to Brittany likewise , and as Bacon's narrative represents the story ( p . 49 ) , it was after the mission of Urswick that the siege of Nantes took place . But we know now that the siege of Nantes was ...
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... sent in December after this great council to France , Brittany , Spain , and Flanders , and Henry's third parliament met Jan. 13th , 1488-9 , and voted supplies for the succour of Brittany . It seems therefore that the result of the ...
... sent in December after this great council to France , Brittany , Spain , and Flanders , and Henry's third parliament met Jan. 13th , 1488-9 , and voted supplies for the succour of Brittany . It seems therefore that the result of the ...
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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.