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Pagina 8
... labour . With the exception of his reign of Henry the Seventh , and a tract written against the match between Prince Charles and the Infanta of Spain , the five last years of his life were spent in making philosophical experiments , and ...
... labour . With the exception of his reign of Henry the Seventh , and a tract written against the match between Prince Charles and the Infanta of Spain , the five last years of his life were spent in making philosophical experiments , and ...
Pagina 10
... labour for posterity , on the 9th of April , 1626 , Bacon died at the age of 66 , at the house of Lord Arundel , in High- gate , on his way to London . A week's acute illness carried him to his grave . He was buried at Old Verulam , and ...
... labour for posterity , on the 9th of April , 1626 , Bacon died at the age of 66 , at the house of Lord Arundel , in High- gate , on his way to London . A week's acute illness carried him to his grave . He was buried at Old Verulam , and ...
Pagina 16
... Ptolemaic and Copernican systems . He was in- terrupted in this labour by death , in 1601 ; and the task of finishing it was intrusted to Kepler , who suc- ceeded him as principal mathematician to the Em- peror . 16 KEPLER .
... Ptolemaic and Copernican systems . He was in- terrupted in this labour by death , in 1601 ; and the task of finishing it was intrusted to Kepler , who suc- ceeded him as principal mathematician to the Em- peror . 16 KEPLER .
Pagina 17
... labours on the observations of Tycho , and especially on those relating to the planet Mars : and the result of them appeared in 1609 , in his work en- titled ' Astronomia Nova ; ' or Commentaries on the motions of Mars . He engaged in ...
... labours on the observations of Tycho , and especially on those relating to the planet Mars : and the result of them appeared in 1609 , in his work en- titled ' Astronomia Nova ; ' or Commentaries on the motions of Mars . He engaged in ...
Pagina 26
... labours of both offices during that interval devolved upon him . At this ' period originated the animosity between Coke and Bacon , which prevailed with little inter- mission during the life of the latter . As soon as the office of ...
... labours of both offices during that interval devolved upon him . At this ' period originated the animosity between Coke and Bacon , which prevailed with little inter- mission during the life of the latter . As soon as the office of ...
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Pagina 42 - 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 177 - ' 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 110 - I am persuaded his power and interest at that time were 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 38 - 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 108 - 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 37 - 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 437 - 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 46 - 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.
Pagina 177 - I raised such men as had the fear of God before them, and made some conscience of what they did, and from that day forward, I must say to you, they were never beaten, and wherever they were engaged against the enemy they beat continually...
Pagina 177 - I did tell him, you must get men of a spirit. And take it not ill what I say, (I know you will not,) of a spirit that is likely to go on as far as gentlemen will go, or else I am sure you will be beaten still ; I told him so, I did truly.