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... House of Commons , and displaying powers of oratory of which he had been unconscious ; -seduced by the love of popular applause , for a brief space becoming a patriot ; -making amends by defending all the worst excesses of prerogative ...
... House of Commons , and displaying powers of oratory of which he had been unconscious ; -seduced by the love of popular applause , for a brief space becoming a patriot ; -making amends by defending all the worst excesses of prerogative ...
Pagina 12
... house , which might mend his prospect , but did not fill his barns ... Commons , but he does not seem to have made himself prominent by taking any ... parliament was sum- a See his Letters . Works , vol . v . A.D. 1593 . SPEECH ON LAW ...
... house , which might mend his prospect , but did not fill his barns ... Commons , but he does not seem to have made himself prominent by taking any ... parliament was sum- a See his Letters . Works , vol . v . A.D. 1593 . SPEECH ON LAW ...
Pagina 13
... parliament ( which we may consider " the debate on the address " ) , he made a great speech on Reform . " We have only scanty remains of his oratory in the House of Commons , but enough to account for the admiration he now excited , and ...
... parliament ( which we may consider " the debate on the address " ) , he made a great speech on Reform . " We have only scanty remains of his oratory in the House of Commons , but enough to account for the admiration he now excited , and ...
Pagina 29
... Common or at Calais . But the law of the duello , which was studied so sedulously in the reigns of Elizabeth and James ... House of Commons gave proofs of professional learning and skill , which ought for ever to have saved him from such ...
... Common or at Calais . But the law of the duello , which was studied so sedulously in the reigns of Elizabeth and James ... House of Commons gave proofs of professional learning and skill , which ought for ever to have saved him from such ...
Pagina 43
... Parliament meeting a few months after the ... House of Lords when the royal speech was delivered , and the efforts made to put down the frightful grievance of monopolies . Bacon being again returned as a member of the House of Commons ...
... Parliament meeting a few months after the ... House of Lords when the royal speech was delivered , and the efforts made to put down the frightful grievance of monopolies . Bacon being again returned as a member of the House of Commons ...
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Pagina 79 - MEN in great place are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose. power over a man's self.
Pagina 142 - But further, it is an assured truth, and a conclusion of experience, that a little or superficial knowledge of philosophy may incline the mind of man to atheism, but a further proceeding therein doth bring the mind back again to religion. For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell .and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth...
Pagina 11 - I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends...
Pagina 26 - That the arch-flatterer, with whom all the petty flatterers have intelligence," is a man's self, certainly the lover is more. For there was never proud man thought so absurdly well of himself as the lover doth of the person loved; and therefore it was well said, that it is impossible to love and to be wise.
Pagina 107 - I have been no avaricious oppressor of the people. I have been no haughty, or intolerable, or hateful man, in my conversation or carriage : I have inherited no hatred from my father, but am a good patriot born. Whence should this be ? For these are the things that use to raise dislikes abroad.
Pagina 50 - I will now make it appear to the world, that there never lived a viler viper upon the face of the earth than thou...
Pagina 178 - Now the rest of the acts of Solomon, first and last, are they not written in the book of Nathan the prophet, and in the prophecy of Ahijah the Shilonite, and in the visions of Iddo the seer against Jeroboam the son of Nebat ? 30 And Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel forty years. 31 And Solomon slept with his fathers, and he was buried in the city of David his father : and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.
Pagina 226 - And the LORD said, Because the cry of Sodom and Gomorrah is great, and because their sin is very grievous ; I will go down now, and see whether they have done altogether according to the cry of it, which is come unto me ; and if not, I will know.
Pagina 142 - ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...
Pagina 136 - It is good also not to try experiments in States, except the necessity be urgent or the utility evident ; and well to beware that it be the reformation that draweth on the change, and not the desire of change that pretendeth the reformation.