 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...so as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation after King Edward the First. For his laws (whoso marks them well) are deep and...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. First therefore he made a law suitable to his own acts and times. For as himself had in his person... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for ihe present, but out of providence of the future, to make...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. First, therefore, he made a law suitable to his own acts and times: for as himself had in his person... | |
 | Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1859 - 746 pages
...vulgar, not made upon the FinM spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy, after the manner of the legislator* in ancient and heroical times." But when we consider how very few kings or statesmen have... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1860 - 488 pages
...justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation afier King Edward the First. For his laws O (whoso marks them well) are deep and not vulgar ;...the estate of his people still more and more happy, afier the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. First therefore he made a law suitable... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - Authors - 1860 - 896 pages
...particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future; to make the estate of the people still more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroic times.' Electoral, as well as other laws, must have their foundation in our knowledge of the... | |
 | William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1868 - 570 pages
...vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of .he future, to make the estate of his people still more...heroical times." Hist. of Henry VII., Works, (ed. 1619,) vol. v p. 60. tration. Laws may be received as indicating the dispositions of the ruler, whether... | |
 | Henry Hallam - 1872 - 708 pages
...vulgar, not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times." But when we consider how very few kings or statesmen have displayed this •prospective wisdom and... | |
 | Thomas Pitt Taswell- Langmead - 1875 - 876 pages
...vulgar, not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times.'- But this high praise is very inadequately supported by the actual facts. The laws of Henry VII. are... | |
 | Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1875 - 968 pages
...occasion for the present, but oat of providence for the future, to make the estate of hii people Btill more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in ancient and heroical times." — Bacnn'i Works, rol. iii., p. •3.1 edition 1834. f deserves not that his gray hairs should secure... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 364 pages
...justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation ; after King Edward the first : for his 25 laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar;...of the legislators in ancient and heroical times. . 30 First therefore he made a law, suitable to his own acts and times : for as himself had in his... | |
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Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of... 
