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" Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out; for it will do you more hurt, than all the teeth in your head will do you good. "
The Percy Anecdotes: Original and Select [by] Sholto and Reuben Percy ... - Page 7
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Bacon

Richard William Church - Statesmen - 1920 - 242 pages
...in as gentle and reaso terms as might be. "Mr. Attorney kindled at it, and said, ' Mr. Bacon, if you any tooth against me pluck it out ; for it will do you more hurt all the teeth in your head will do you good. ' I answered cold these very words: 'Mr. Attorney, I respect...
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Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594): Including Shakespeare's Connection with the ...

Basil Brown - Gesta Grayorum - 1921 - 398 pages
...as gentle and reasonable terms as might be. Mr. Attorney kindled at it, and said, "Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out; for it will...the teeth in your head will do you good." I answered coldly in these very words: "Mr. Attorney, I respect you: I fear you not: and the less you speak of...
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STY Law

Rene Albert Wormser, Rene Wormser - Law - 1972 - 628 pages
...Exchequer, and something which Bacon said started the following bitter colloquy: Coke: "Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out; for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon: "Mr. Attorney, I respect you, I fear you not, and the less you speak of your own greatness,...
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Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man

Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...hard to determine, but their words were loud and the bar was crowded. "Mr. Bacon!" said Coke. "If you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." "Mr. Attorney!" retorted Bacon. "I respect you, I fear you not, and the less you speak of your greatness,...
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Forms of Nationhood: The Elizabethan Writing of England

Richard Helgerson - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 390 pages
...an apparently slighting motion Bacon had made. "Mr. Bacon," Coke is supposed to have said, "if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon answered coldly: "Mr. Attorney, I respect you. I fear you not. And the less you speak of your...
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Quotations of Wit and Wisdom

John W. Gardner, Francesca Gardner Reese - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1996 - 278 pages
...excess as to impede or delay the business of the Court. Justice John S. Wilkes Coke: Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good. Bacon: Mr. Attorney, I respect you: I fear you not: and the less you speak of your own greatness, the...
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Elizabethan and Jacobean Journals, 1591-1610

George Bagshawe Harrison - Drama - 1999 - 436 pages
...lapsed recusant and showed cause, whereat Mr. Attorney kindled at it and said, ' Master Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out ; for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good.' Mr. Bacon answered coldly, ' Master Attorney, I respect you ; I fear you not : and the less you speak...
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Where There's Life, There's Lawsuits: Not Altogether Serious Ruminations on ...

Jeffrey Miller - Law - 2003 - 313 pages
...in mudslinging with Sir Francis when the two lawyers argued cases in court. COKE: Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good. BACON: Mr. Attorney, I respect you; I fear you not, and the less you speak of your own greatness, the...
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American Quarterly Review, Volume 12; Volume 17

American literature - 1832 - 564 pages
...gentle and reasonable terms as might be. " Mr. Attorney kindled at it, and said, ' Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out; for it will...the teeth in your head will do you good.' I answered coldly in these very words: ' Mr. Attorney, I respect you, 1 fear you not, and the less you speak of...
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The Leisure Hour, Volume 5

Great Britain - 1856 - 840 pages
...were the contests between these memorable barristers. "Mr. Bacou^" said the Attorney-General, "if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out, for it will...than all the teeth in your head will do you good." "Mr. Attorney, I respect you," said Bacon, " but I fear you not ; and the less you speak of your own...
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