The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 3W. Pickering, 1825 |
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... amity , and be the occasion of peace and security , which is , if you would plainly demonstrate that you have yielded up and put into our hands such things as that , would you hurt us never so fain , you should yet be disfurnished of ...
... amity , and be the occasion of peace and security , which is , if you would plainly demonstrate that you have yielded up and put into our hands such things as that , would you hurt us never so fain , you should yet be disfurnished of ...
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... amity one towards another , standing all at the gaze about him , and at- tentively lend their ears to his music . Neither is this all ; for so great was the power and alluring force of this harmony , that he drew the woods , and moved ...
... amity one towards another , standing all at the gaze about him , and at- tentively lend their ears to his music . Neither is this all ; for so great was the power and alluring force of this harmony , that he drew the woods , and moved ...
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... amity . At which day also , as if the crown upon his head had put perils into his thoughts , he did insti- tute , for the better security of his person , a band of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen ...
... amity . At which day also , as if the crown upon his head had put perils into his thoughts , he did insti- tute , for the better security of his person , a band of fifty archers , under a captain , to attend him , by the name of yeomen ...
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... amity between " the two kings , no doubt , stands entire and invio- " late ; and that their subjects ' swords have clashed , " it is nothing unto the public peace of the crowns ; " it being a thing very usual in auxiliary forces of the ...
... amity between " the two kings , no doubt , stands entire and invio- " late ; and that their subjects ' swords have clashed , " it is nothing unto the public peace of the crowns ; " it being a thing very usual in auxiliary forces of the ...
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... that prince to hold him up in the eyes of the Italians ; who expecting the arms of Charles , made great account of the amity of England for a bridle to France . It was received by Alphonso with 2 274 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
... that prince to hold him up in the eyes of the Italians ; who expecting the arms of Charles , made great account of the amity of England for a bridle to France . It was received by Alphonso with 2 274 HISTORY OF KING HENRY VII .
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Page xxiv - For men have entered into a desire of learning and knowledge, sometimes upon a natural curiosity and inquisitive appetite; sometimes to entertain their minds with variety and delight; sometimes for ornament and reputation; and sometimes to enable them to victory of wit and contradiction; and most times for lucre and profession; and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason, to the benefit and use of men...
Page xxv - ... and seldom sincerely to give a true account of their gift of reason to the benefit and use of men: as if there were sought in knowledge a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect; or a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the...
Page xxv - But because the distributions and partitions of knowledge are not like several lines that meet in one angle, and so touch but in a point; but are like branches of a tree, that meet in a stem, which hath a dimension and quantity of entireness and continuance, before it come to discontinue and break itself into arms and boughs...
Page 192 - Lambert, the king would not take his life, both out of magnanimity, taking him but as an image of wax, that others had tempered and molded ; and likewise out of wisdom, thinking that if he suffered death, he would be forgotten too soon ; but being kept alive, he would be a continual spectacle, and a kind of remedy against the like enchantments of people in time to come. For which cause he was taken into service in his court to a base office in his kitchen ; so that, in a kind of mattacina...
Page 494 - An active Principle : — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That pave., the brooks, the stationary rocks. The moving waters, and the invisible air.
Page 410 - Christendom, but the industry and vigilancy of his own ambassadors in foreign parts. For which purpose his instructions were ever extreme curious and articulate ; and in them more articles touching inquisition than touching negotiation: requiring likewise from his ambassadors an answer, in particular distinct articles, respectively to his questions.
Page xxi - It is true my labors are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published, as that of Advancement of Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.
Page 283 - ... in some few upon conscience and belief, but in most upon simplicity, and in divers out of dependence upon some of the better sort, who did in secret favour and nourish these bruits. And it was not long ere these rumours of novelty had begotten others of scandal and murmur against the king and his Government, taxing him for a great taxer of his people, and discountenance!, of his nobility.
Page 275 - Neither again could any man, by company or con•ersing with him, be able to say or detect well what he was, he did so flit from place to place.