The Letters and the Life of Francis Bacon Including All His Occasional Works: Namely Letters, Speeches, Tracts, State Papers, Memorials, Devices and All Authentic Writings Not Already Printed Among His Philosophical, Literary, Or Professional Works, כרך 4

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Longman, Green, Longman, and Roberts, 1868
 

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עמוד 348 - High Court of Justice shall be constituted as follows: — The first Judges thereof shall be the Lord Chancellor, The Lord Chief Justice of England, the Master of the Rolls, the Lord Chief Justice of the Common Pleas, the Lord Chief Baron...
עמוד 177 - The king's sovereignty, and the liberty of parliament, are as the two elements and principles of this estate ; which, though the one be more active, the other more passive, yet they do not cross or destroy the one the other ; but they strengthen and maintain the one the other.
עמוד 411 - ... performances : a man's life is not to be trifled away ; it is to be offered up and sacrificed to honourable services, public merits, good causes, and noble adventures. It is in expense of blood as it is in expense of money ; it is no liberality to make a profusion of money upon every vain occasion, nor no more it is fortitude to make effusion of blood, except the cause be of worth.
עמוד 424 - History of England from the Accession of James I. to the Disgrace of Chief Justice Coke
עמוד 220 - In the same term it was resolved by the two Chief Justices, Chief Baron, and Baron Altham, upon conference betwixt the Lords of the Privy Council and them, that the King by his proclamation cannot create any offence which was not an offence before, for then he may alter the law of the land by his proclamation in a high point; for if he may create an offence where none is, upon that ensues fine and imprisonment...
עמוד 119 - ... the race and generation of men, valiant, hard and active) as it is not easy, no not upon the Continent, to find such confluence of commodities, if the hand of man did join with the hand of Nature.
עמוד 19 - For now the Poet cannot die, Nor leave his music as of old, But round him ere he scarce be cold Begins the scandal and the cry : 'Proclaim the faults he would not show : Break lock and seal: betray the trust: Keep nothing sacred : 'tis but just The many-headed beast should know.
עמוד 278 - I'll e'en deal plainly with you, and give you such a character of him, as if I were to write his story. I do think he was no fit counsellor to make your affairs better ; but yet he was fit to have kept them from growing worse.
עמוד 29 - I have hinted in these notes, that I am not entirely free from a sort of gloomy fits, with a fluttering of the heart and depression of spirits, just as if I knew not what was going to befall me. I can sometimes resist this successfully, but it is better to evade than to combat it. The hang-dog spirit may have originated in the confusion and chucking about of our old furniture, the stripping of walls of pictures, and rooms of ornaments ; the leaving of a house we have so long called our home, is altogether...
עמוד 65 - Nay it is a point fit and necessary in the front and beginning of this work without hesitation or reservation to be professed, that it is no less true in this human kingdom of knowledge than in God's kingdom of heaven, that no man shall enter into it except he become first as a little child.

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