Critical & Historical Essays, Volume 2Dent, 1930 |
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Page 315
... Bacon's writings , and had been pleased with them . He was accordingly selected to write A Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex , which was printed by authority . In the succeeding ...
... Bacon's writings , and had been pleased with them . He was accordingly selected to write A Declaration of the Practices and Treasons attempted and committed by Robert Earl of Essex , which was printed by authority . In the succeeding ...
Page 329
... Bacon stands in a very different situation from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Bacon was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and ...
... Bacon stands in a very different situation from that in which Mr. Montagu tries to place him . Bacon was here distinctly behind his age . He was one of the last of the tools of power who persisted in a practice the most barbarous and ...
Page 351
... Bacon , but the age in which he lived . But why should we have recourse to any other evidence , when the proceeding against Lord Bacon is itself the best evidence on the subject ? When Mr. Montagu tells us that we ought not to transfer ...
... Bacon , but the age in which he lived . But why should we have recourse to any other evidence , when the proceeding against Lord Bacon is itself the best evidence on the subject ? When Mr. Montagu tells us that we ought not to transfer ...
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