An Account of the Life and Times of Francis Bacon: Extracted from the Edition of His Occasional Writings by James Spedding, Volumen2,Parte1Houghton, Osgood, 1878 |
Términos y frases comunes
advice answer appear Attorney Bacon Buckingham called charge Coke's committed Committee Commons confession Council Councillors Countess Countess of Somerset course Court Crown debate declaration doubt Earl EARL OF BUCKINGHAM England evidence examination Exchequer favor followed give guilty hath hear heard honor Impositions John Sydenham Judges judgment Julius Cæsar justice King King's Bench Lady Learned Counsel letter Lord Chancellor Lordship Lower House Majesty Majesty's marriage matter means ment occasion offense offer opinion Overbury Parliament Parliament of Ireland party passed Peacham persons petition popular precedents prerogative prisoner Privy Privy Councillors proceeding prosecution punishment question Ralegh reason resolution says Chamberlain seems sent Sir Edward Coke Sir Edwin Sandys Sir Henry Sir John Sir Robert Cotton Somerset Spain speech Star Chamber supply suppose taken thing thought tion trial undertakers unto Villiers warrant Weston wherein whole House Winwood wished words
Pasajes populares
Página 214 - That your hands, and the hands of your hands, I mean those about you, be clean and uncorrupt from gifts, from meddling in titles, and from serving of turns, be they of great ones or small ones.
Página 213 - THE king's most excellent majesty, being duly informed of your learning, integrity, discretion, experience, means, and reputation in your country, hath thought fit not to leave you these talents to be employed upon yourself only, but to call you to serve himself, and his people, in the place of one of his justices of the court of common pleas.
Página 104 - With this trick of wit he allayed his fury, and got him quietly, about eight in the morning, to the hall; yet feared his former bold language might revert...
Página 86 - If you take my Lord Coke, this will follow ; first, your majesty, shall put an over-ruling nature into an over-ruling place, which may breed an extreme : next, you shall blunt his industries in matter of finances, which seemeth to aim at another place. And lastly, popular men are no sure mounters for your majesty's saddle.
Página 221 - I know men think I cannot continue, if I should thus oppress myself with business. But that account is made. The duties of life are more than life. And if I die now I shall die before the world be weary of me, which in our times is somewhat rare.
Página 86 - If you take my lord Hobart, you shall have a judge at the upper end of your council board, and another at the lower end; whereby your majesty will find your prerogative pent; for though there should be emulation between them, yet as legists they will agree in magnifying that wherein they are best...
Página 345 - For offences against this law are principally incident to whole states or nations ; in which case recourse can only be had to war ; which is an appeal to the God of hosts, to punish such infractions of public faith, as are committed by one independent people against another : neither state having any superior jurisdiction to resort to upon earth for justice.
Página 251 - Let the fault or misfortune be what or whence it will, it may reasonably be believed, that, if he had been blessed with one faithful friend, who had been qualified with wisdom and integrity...
Página 333 - Declaration the same fact is alleged to prove, not any plot with France, but a desire to escape from Mr. Gardiner, on the other hand, who has been careful to compare the statements in the Declaration with the testimony of independent witnesses, and concludes that " it was founded upon the evidence taken " and contains nothing which the authors did not believe to be true, finds nevertheless an error at the bottom of it which renders the superstructure
Página 345 - But where the individuals of any state violate this general law, it is then the interest as well as duty of the government, under which they live, to animadvert upon them with a becoming severity, that the peace of the world may be maintained. For in vain would nations in their collective capacity observe these universal rules, if private subjects were at liberty to break them at their own discretion, and involve the two states in a war. It is therefore incumbent upon the nation injured, first to...