Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and CharacterEstes and Lauriat, 1883 - 277 pages |
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... servant of ; " adopts Sir Robert Cecil for his patron ; A. D. 1601 , Anthony Bacon dies ; this year a new parliament ; the last of Elizabeth's reign ; Bacon a law reformer ; bill for regulation of weights and measures lost , revived and ...
... servant of ; " adopts Sir Robert Cecil for his patron ; A. D. 1601 , Anthony Bacon dies ; this year a new parliament ; the last of Elizabeth's reign ; Bacon a law reformer ; bill for regulation of weights and measures lost , revived and ...
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... servants well , and the talent of appropriating to herself the chief part of the credit of their acts . " Of the literature which met the subject of this sketch upon the threshold of life , little now can be said than that it was very ...
... servants well , and the talent of appropriating to herself the chief part of the credit of their acts . " Of the literature which met the subject of this sketch upon the threshold of life , little now can be said than that it was very ...
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... servants ' hall , practising on their credulity , who would tell them which of a pack of cards they thought . Bacon says he related the incident to " a man that was curious and vain enough in these things . This pretended learned told ...
... servants ' hall , practising on their credulity , who would tell them which of a pack of cards they thought . Bacon says he related the incident to " a man that was curious and vain enough in these things . This pretended learned told ...
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... servant and ally , in drawing Her Majesty to accept of the sincerity and simplicity of my heart , and to bear with the rest , and restore me to Her Majesty's favor . " If it be just to test a man's sincerity by HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER . 19.
... servant and ally , in drawing Her Majesty to accept of the sincerity and simplicity of my heart , and to bear with the rest , and restore me to Her Majesty's favor . " If it be just to test a man's sincerity by HIS LIFE AND CHARACTER . 19.
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... servant to the Queen and State than he had done in anything else . " An appeal from Bacon to Bacon never fails to condemn the courtier out of the mouth of the philosopher . Twenty years later he addressed a letter of advice to the ...
... servant to the Queen and State than he had done in anything else . " An appeal from Bacon to Bacon never fails to condemn the courtier out of the mouth of the philosopher . Twenty years later he addressed a letter of advice to the ...
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