The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:William Pickering., 1825 - 16 pages |
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Page xviii - victory of wit and contradiction; and most times " for lucre and profession ; and seldom sincerely to " give a true account of their gift of reason, to the " benefit and use of men: as if there were sought " in knowledge a couch, whereupon to rest a search"ing and restless spirit; or a tarrasse for
Page 403 - 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. I could wish he did the like in this monument of his fame. THE HISTORY OF THE REIGN
Page xviii - upon a natural curiosity, and inquisitive " appetite ; sometimes to entertain their minds with " variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and " reputation; and sometimes enable them to " victory of wit and contradiction;
Page 227 - should not be brought but in English " bottoms;" bowing the ancient policy of this estate, from consideration of plenty to consideration of power. For that almost all the ancient statutes incite by all means merchant-strangers, to bring in all sorts of commodities; having for end cheapness, and not looking to the point of
Page xlii - where he also omits the passage already cited in this preface, f " Then the reign of a queen matched with a •' foreigner: then of a queen that lived solitary " and unmarried, and yet her government so " masculine that it had greater impression and • See page 468 of this volume. f Ante page
Page 264 - coming upon him, which presently after brake forth. But it gave no less discontent to the nobility and principal persons of the army, who had many of them sold or engaged their estates upon the hopes of the war. They stuck not to say, " That the king " cared not to plume his nobility and people,
Page xxix - here, as it is easier for a man to multiply than to " stay a wish, but calling to remembrance the un" worthiness of the history of England,* in the " main continuance thereof; and the partiality and " * The un worthiness of the history of England hath been
Page xviii - guard and caution in respect of a man's self: but " to be speculative into another man, to the end to " know how to work him, or wind him, or govern " him, proceedeth from a heart that is double and " cloven, and not entire and ingenuous." If there is not such beauty as " men have entered " into a desire of learning and knowledge,
Page 279 - here in England or abroad ; and how far every one engaged, and what new ones they meant afterwards to try or board. And as this for the persons, so for the actions themselves, to discover to the bottom, as they could, the utmost of Perkin's and the conspirators, their intentions, hopes, and practices. These latter