The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Band 16W. Pickering, 1834 |
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... majesty , and withal to add , in the behalf of it , that which I may better deliver by letter than by speech ; which is , that although it must be confessed that the request is rare and unaccustomed , yet if it be observed how few there ...
... majesty , and withal to add , in the behalf of it , that which I may better deliver by letter than by speech ; which is , that although it must be confessed that the request is rare and unaccustomed , yet if it be observed how few there ...
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... majesty , “ That if she would be pleased to spare me in my lord of Essex's cause , out of the consideration she took of my obligation towards him , I should reckon it for one of her greatest favours : but otherwise desiring her majesty ...
... majesty , “ That if she would be pleased to spare me in my lord of Essex's cause , out of the consideration she took of my obligation towards him , I should reckon it for one of her greatest favours : but otherwise desiring her majesty ...
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... majesty's mercy ; that he was acquitted by all present of disloyalty , of which he did not stand charged , but of dis- obedience and contempt ; and if he meant to say that he had disobeyed , without an intention of disobedience , it was ...
... majesty's mercy ; that he was acquitted by all present of disloyalty , of which he did not stand charged , but of dis- obedience and contempt ; and if he meant to say that he had disobeyed , without an intention of disobedience , it was ...
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... majesty , as I am per- suaded he was never in his lifetime more fit for your majesty's favour than he is now : therefore , if your majesty will not mar it by lingering , but give over at the best , and now you have made so good a full ...
... majesty , as I am per- suaded he was never in his lifetime more fit for your majesty's favour than he is now : therefore , if your majesty will not mar it by lingering , but give over at the best , and now you have made so good a full ...
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... majesty unto it , affirm- ing , that by the law the earl had no authority to make them , being by her majesty's own letter , of her own hand written , commanded the contrary . Her Majesty had ordered the Lord Keeper to remove my lord of ...
... majesty unto it , affirm- ing , that by the law the earl had no authority to make them , being by her majesty's own letter , of her own hand written , commanded the contrary . Her Majesty had ordered the Lord Keeper to remove my lord of ...
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
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Beliebte Passagen
Seite xxxix - Prosperity is the blessing of the Old Testament, adversity is the blessing of the New, which carrieth the greater benediction and the clearer revelation of God's favour.
Seite xvi - The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible.
Seite cdlix - Bowling is good for the stone and reins, shooting for the lungs and breast, gentle walking for the stomach, riding for the head, and the like. So, if a man's wit be wandering, let him study the mathematics, for in demonstrations, if his wit be called away never so little, he must begin again. If his wit be not apt to distinguish or find differences, let him study the Schoolmen, for they are cymini sectores [splitters of hairs]. If he be not apt to beat over matters, and to call up one thing to prove...
Seite xxix - ... more neatly, more pressly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough or look aside from him without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end.
Seite cdxliv - I HAD rather believe all the fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a mind.
Seite vii - This kind of degenerate learning did chiefly reign amongst the schoolmen; who — having sharp and strong wits, and abundance of leisure, and small variety of reading, but their wits being shut up in the cells of a few authors, (chiefly Aristotle their dictator,) as their persons were shut up in the cells of monasteries and colleges, and knowing little history, either of Nature or time — did, out of no great quantity of matter and infinite agitation of wit, spin out unto us those laborious webs...
Seite ccxlv - And they which heard it, being convicted by their own conscience, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest, even unto the last : and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.
Seite ccxxxvi - ... if celestial spheres should forget their wonted motions, and by irregular volubility turn themselves any way as it might happen ; if the prince of the lights of heaven, which now as a giant doth run his unwearied course, should, as it were, through a languishing faintness, begin to stand, and to rest himself ; if the moon should wander from her beaten way, the times and seasons of the year blend themselves by disordered and confused mixture, the winds breathe out their last gasp...