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" I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years. But it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years. "
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
...(as I find it recorded in a commonplace of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Library), " I was the justes t judge that was In England these fifty years ; but...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Rawley adds, quum prcesens obicrcati ; which gives this list a peculiar value....
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - English literature - 1861 - 556 pages
...friends (as I find it recorded in a commonplace book of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Library), •' I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." riiwn Naturae, or a Metaphysical piece which is lost; l Historia Ventorum; Historia Vitce et Mortis...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 556 pages
...his friends (as I find it recorded in a commonplace book of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Librar}'), u I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." rium Naturœ, or a Metaphysical piece which is lost ; l Historia Ventorum ; Historia Vitœ et Mortis...
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The Literature of the Age of Elizabeth

Edwin Percy Whipple - English literature - 1869 - 382 pages
...participated, was reformed in his punishment. He is reported to have said, afterwards, in conversation, " I was the justest judge that was in England these...Parliament that was these two hundred years." The courts of Russia are now notoriously corrupt ; in some future time, when the nation imperatively demands...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1869 - 446 pages
...foreign nations, and the next ages.' The verdict can hardly be other than that he pronounced himself: ' I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.' This censure, pronounced on the 3rd of May by the Lords, was that he should pay a fine of 40,ooo/....
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1873 - 438 pages
...foreign nations, and the next ages.' The verdict can hardly be other than that he pronounced himself: 'I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.' This censure, pronounced on the 3rd of May by the Lords, was that he should pay a fine of 40,ooo/....
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 7

Francis Bacon - 1874 - 674 pages
...Rawley had been forbidden to publish, but could not allow to perish. "I was the jastest judge that v.as in England these fifty years. But it was the justest...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." Now if instead of Lord Mncaulay's view of the case the later ages should adopt Bacon's own — (and...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 pages
...Parliament, and prohibition to come within the verge of the Court. His own comment on this verdict is, " I was the justest judge that was in England these...Parliament that was these two hundred years." The severest parts of the sentence were very soon remitted ; and within a year the whole was remitted,...
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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...foreign nations, and the next ages.' The verdict can hardly be other than that he pronounced himself: 'I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.' This censure, pronounced on the 3rd of May by the Lords, was that he should pay a fine of 40,ooo/....
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...biographer, but not published, there has been discovered Bacon's own verdict on himself in these words : / was the justest judge that was in England these fifty...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years. Was this true? Probably not ; but it was certainly true that he believed it to be true : and the explanation...
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