...greatest sinners in Israel upon whom the wall of Shilo fell." And further, in cipher, "I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years: But it...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years." On his first day in Che Tower, Bacon sent a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham; vnitten, he said,...

...(as I find it recorded in a manuscript of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Library), " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but...hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Rawley adds, quam pratens obienavi ; which gives this list a peculiar value. 1 A fragment of this piece was recovered...

...that the Lords' sentence upon him had been a just one, 'for reformation sake'. Elsewhere he noted that 'it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.'44 He saw no inconsistency in writing (to Buckingham) that he had 'clean hands and a clean heart',...

...practice even when cases were pending. Creighton quoted Bacon as saying at the time, "I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years; but it was the justest censure that was in Parliament these two hundred vears" (vi). CHAPTER 3 1. For other discussions of the influences...

...by Bacon at his death, his first biographer, Rawley, found the famous statement, "I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it...was the justest censure in Parliament that was these 200 years." The effects of the indictment were good. It lessened corruption in office, and it set a...

...indeed shared 'the abuse of the times'. So he could affirm, paradoxically, that 'I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years' (ibid. 560). The final paradox is this coexistence within his personality of the two opposed states...

...refuse, however, to grant Bacon a full pardon. In his private notebook Bacon observed, "I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years: But it...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years" (Works, 7:179). Bacon, Works, edited by James Spedding, 14 vols. (1874). Fulton H. Anderson, Francis...

...reformed in his punishment. He is reported to have said, afterwards, in conversation, " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years." The courts of Russia are now notoriously corrupt ; in some future time, when the nation may imperatively...

...himself hard pressed. He showed courage, however, in his misfortune, declaring, ' 1 was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years : but...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years. Melodramatic as the statement sounds, it wan probably correct. He had certainly been one of the most...

...not, and cannot be, excused : his own magnanimous confession makes this certain. " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years," says Bacon himself. And with this acknowledgment before us, and remembering that there was no attempt...