Distinguished Men of Modern Times ...: Lord Bacon to LeibnitzC. Knight, 1838 |
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Pagina 3
... honour conferred upon him in the reign of Elizabeth , in the title of Counsel Learned in the Law Extraordinary . It seems strange that Bacon , who was the nephew of the Lord High Treasurer Bur- leigh , and cousin of the principal ...
... honour conferred upon him in the reign of Elizabeth , in the title of Counsel Learned in the Law Extraordinary . It seems strange that Bacon , who was the nephew of the Lord High Treasurer Bur- leigh , and cousin of the principal ...
Pagina 7
... honoured , and among the most power- ful subjects of the realm . But this parliament was fatal to him . James had not called this assembly together for more than ten years , except for the short session of two months in 1614 , and ...
... honoured , and among the most power- ful subjects of the realm . But this parliament was fatal to him . James had not called this assembly together for more than ten years , except for the short session of two months in 1614 , and ...
Pagina 25
... was not engaged . Professional honours were the le- gitimate consequence of this large business in the courts : in 1586 he was chosen Recorder of Norwich , VOL . II . C and four years afterwards was made a bencher of the COKE . 25.
... was not engaged . Professional honours were the le- gitimate consequence of this large business in the courts : in 1586 he was chosen Recorder of Norwich , VOL . II . C and four years afterwards was made a bencher of the COKE . 25.
Pagina 26
... honour and respect in which he was held by the profession , that on this occasion he was accompanied on his journey , as far as Rom- ford , by a procession composed of nine benchers and forty other members of the Inner Temple . In March ...
... honour and respect in which he was held by the profession , that on this occasion he was accompanied on his journey , as far as Rom- ford , by a procession composed of nine benchers and forty other members of the Inner Temple . In March ...
Pagina 29
... honour of knighthood . Coke's sound judgment and extensive legal know- ledge , united with his fervent attachment to Protest- antism , rendered him an invaluable officer of the crown in the various proceedings against the Roman ...
... honour of knighthood . Coke's sound judgment and extensive legal know- ledge , united with his fervent attachment to Protest- antism , rendered him an invaluable officer of the crown in the various proceedings against the Roman ...
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Pagina 60 - He is a great lover and praiser of himself, a contemner and scorner of others, given rather to lose a friend than a jest, jealous of every word and action of those about him, (especially after drink, which is one of the elements in which he liveth...
Pagina 193 - ' are most of them old decayed serving men and tapsters, " ' and such kind of fellows ; and,' said I, ' their troops " ' are gentlemen's sons, younger sons, and persons of " ' quality ; do you think that the spirits of such base and " ' mean fellows will ever be able to encounter gentlemen. " ' that have honour and courage, and resolution in them...
Pagina 128 - I am persuaded his power and interest, at that time, was greater to do good or hurt than any man's in the kingdom, or than any man of his rank hath had in any time ; for his reputation of honesty was universal, and his affections seemed so publicly guided, that no corrupt or private ends could bias them.
Pagina 126 - His carriage throughout this agitation was with that rare temper and modesty, that they who watched him narrowly to find some advantage against his person, to make him less resolute in his cause, were compelled to give him a just testimony.
Pagina 56 - That the argument of his comedy might have been of some other nature, as of a duke to be in love with a countess, and that countess to be in love with the duke's son, and the son to love the lady's waiting-maid : some such cross wooing, with a clown to their servingman, better than to be thus near, and familiarly allied to the time.
Pagina 289 - Let not our veneration for Milton forbid us to look with some degree of merriment on great promises and small performance, on the man who hastens home, because his countrymen are contending for their liberty, and, when he reaches the scene of action, vapours away his patriotism in a private boarding-school.
Pagina 55 - The Winter's Tale is sneered at by B. Jonson, in the induction to Bartholomew Fair, 1614: " If there be never a servant-monster in the fair, who can help it, nor a nest of Antiques ? He is loth to make nature afraid in his plays, like those that beget TALES, Tempests, and such like drolleries.
Pagina 451 - second, having endeavoured to subvert the constitution of " the kingdom, by breaking the original contract between " king and people — and, by the advice of Jesuits and other " wicked persons, having violated the fundamental laws, " and having withdrawn himself out of this kingdom — has " abdicated the government, and that the throne is thereby
Pagina 34 - MP late a member of the said house, serving as one of the knights of...
Pagina 64 - Till then, our authors had no thoughts of writing on the model of the ancients : their Tragedies were only Histories in dialogue ; and their Comedies followed the thread of any novel as they found it, no less implicitly than if it had been true history.