Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 1

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K. Paul, Trench & Company, 1881 - Essay on Bacon
Examination of Macaulay's article on Bacon in a series of dialogues.
 

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Page 102 - I did as plainly see his overthrow chained as it were by destiny to that journey, as it is possible for a man to ground a judgment upon future contingents.
Page 15 - Countenance, encourage, and advance able men in all kinds, degrees, and professions. For in the time of the Cecils, the father and the son, able men were by design and of purpose suppressed.
Page 86 - And I do easily see that place of any reasonable countenance doth bring commandment of more wits than of a man's own ; which is the thing I greatly affect.
Page 39 - I esteem no worldly thing above the comfort to enjoy it, except it be the conscience to deserve it. But if the not seconding of some particular person's opinion shall be presumption, and to differ upon the manner shall be to impeach the end, it shall teach my devotion not to exceed wishes, and those in silence.
Page 132 - I was but once with the Queen; at what time, though I durst not deal directly for my Lord as things then stood, yet generally I did both commend her Majesty's mercy, terming it to her as an excellent balm that did continually distil from her sovereign hands, and made an excellent odour in the senses of her people...
Page 70 - ... and whosoever getteth this office out of my hands for any other, before he have it, it shall cost him the coming by.
Page 3 - Whilst he was commorant in the university, about sixteen years of age, (as his lordship hath been pleased to impart unto myself), he first fell into the dislike of the philosophy of Aristotle; not for the worthlessness of the author, to whom he would ever ascribe all high attributes, but for the...
Page 207 - I chose to write ; assuring your lordship how credible soever it may seem to you at first, yet it is as true as a thing that God knoweth; that this great change hath wrought in me no other change towards your lordship than this ; that I may safely be now that which I was truly before.
Page 154 - We will not at present inquire whether the doctrine which is held on this subject by English lawyers be or be not agreeable to reason and morality ; whether it be right that a man should, with a wig on his head, and a band round his neck, do for a guinea what, without those appendages, he would i hi n!c it wicked and infamous to do for an empire...
Page 78 - He bade me take no care for that, and pressed it : whereupon I said, " My lord, I see I must be your " homager, and hold land of your gift ; but do you " know the manner of doing homage in law? Always " it is with a saving of his faith to the king and his " other lords ; and therefore, my lord, said I, I can be " no more yours than I was, and it must be with the " ancient savings: and if 1 grow to be a rich man, " you will give me leave to give it back again to some " of your unrewarded followers.

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