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It was a favour which by his advice, as against the King's honour, had been refused to Suffolk; it was a favour which, in a much lighter charge, had by his advice been refused to his colleague Yelverton only a few months before, when Bacon, in sentencing him, took occasion to expatiate on the heinous guilt of misprisions or mistakes in men in high places.
Don't blame me much for bumming a breakfast, do you?" And he added, with a sigh of deep physical content, "It sure-lee was some feed!" His lids drooped lower as if sleep were overtaking him in spite of himself. "I'd ask yuh if you'd seen anything of those mules only I don't give a damn now. I wish this was night instead of noon; I could sleep the clock around after that bacon and bannock of yours.
Was Sir Isaac Newton within an ace of skipping into the air when he first found out the law of gravitation? Did Friar Bacon long to dance when he lit the match and heard the first charge of gunpowder in the world go off with a bang? I had to put a strong constraint on myself, or I should have communicated all that was passing in my mind to William before our friends at the farmhouse.
Montagu tries to place him. Bacon was here distinctly behind his age. Jardine has published a very learned and ingenious Reading on the use of torture in England. It has not, however, been thought necessary to make any change in the observations on Peacham's case. It is impossible to discuss within the limits of a note, the extensive question raised by Mr. Jardine. Bacon far behind his age!
"I told him you were an actor," interrupted his friend. "Run along now and give the order to Mother Jones. Mr. Barnes is hungry." "I am delighted to meet you, Mr. Barnes," said Mr. Bacon, extending his hand. As he did so, his coat sleeve receded half way to the elbow, revealing the full expanse of a frayed cuff.
Where have you been? 'With Gretel. 'What did you take her? 'I took her nothing, she gave me something. 'What did Gretel give you? 'Gave me a bit of bacon. 'Where is the bacon, Hans? 'I tied it to a rope, brought it home, dogs took it. 'That was ill done, Hans, you should have carried the bacon on your head. 'Never mind, will do better next time.
Born in the year of the Gunpowder Plot, he was not, in truth, one of those clear and clarifying souls which, in an age alike of practical and mental confusion, can anticipate and lay down the bases of reconstruction, like Bacon or Hooker. His mind has much of the perplexity which was part of the atmosphere of the time. Not that he is without his own definite opinions on events.
Andrewes, to whom he submitted all his works, and whom he called his "inquisitor general;" and he was proud to sign himself the pupil of Whitgift, and to write for him the archbishop of whom Lady Bacon wrote to her son Antony, veiling the dangerous sentiment in Greek, "that he was the ruin of the Church, for he loved his own glory more than Christ's."
"We'll have a blow-out to-night," said Zeb. "Canned salmon, beans, crackers, cheese and canned fruit, but don't expect to get that right along. I've lived on beans and bacon for six months in this very neck of the woods, and thought myself lucky to get that." "Hullo!" came a cry from the direction of the river.
He was considering if it might do him good to make a row about this he had always been afraid to make rows but the other door of the drawing-room opened. His wife was found. "'S all for 's aft'noon," he exploded to the servitor, who seemed not displeased to withdraw from this authoritative presence. Then he engaged a slice of bacon with a ruthless fork.
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