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My father was never at a loss what to say to any man, upon any subject; and had the least occasion for the exordium of any man breathing: how he dealt with his lordship's opinion, you shall see; but when I know not: we must first see what his lordship's opinion was. 'The two great causes, which conspire with each other to shorten life, says lord Verulam, are first
Our author to avoid any impertinence which the captain was likely to be guilty of towards him, told him, Sir Edmund Bacon, the person with whom he travelled, was the grandchild of the great lord Verulam, High Chancelor of England, whose fame was extended to every country where science and philosophy prevailed, and that they were protected by the earl of Hertford, the English embassador at Brussels.
As usually happens, it is in details of a personal and biographical kind that the author's investigations have been the most productive of new discoveries. It is a question with some minds, whether such details are properly admitted into history. The new luminary of moral and political science, the Verulam of the nineteenth century, Mr.
Even in its advancement beyond the intelligence of its own age genius is but progressive. In nature all is continuous; she makes no starts and leaps. Genius is said to soar, but we should rather say that genius climbs. Did the great VERULAM, or RAWLEIGH, or Dr.
Tournebroche, my boy, always remember this misfortune of Lord Verulam, Chancellor of England and author of the 'Novum Organum. But to return to that Sire d'Asterac, in whose service we are; it is a great pity that he is a sorcerer and given to cursed science. However, if he is, as his name and speech indicate, a Gascon nobleman, we have nothing to be afraid of.
This story of Constantius, the father of Constantine, which I prefer to place at York, the favourite residence of Constantius, introduces us of course to the one well-known result of the persecution, so far as Britain was concerned, the death of Alban at Verulam, about 305. When you go to St. Albans, you see the local truth of the traditional details.
'That was very well for my lord of what did'st thou call him, Ned? 'Francis Bacon, lord Verulam, returned Herbert, with a queer smile. 'Very well for my lord of Veryflam! resumed lady Margaret, with a mock, yet bewitching affectation of innocence and ignorance; 'but tell me had he? nay, I am sure he had not a wild Irishwoman sitting breaking her heart in her bower all day long for his company.
His first title in the peerage was Baron Verulam; his second, on a subsequent promotion, was Viscount St.
And Candace, after this condescending remark, would lift off with one hand a brass kettle in which poor Cato might have been drowned, and fly across the kitchen with it as if it were a feather. The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England.
Wisdom of the Ancients 1609, Attorney-Gen. 1613, prosecuted Somerset 1616, Lord Keeper 1618, Lord Chancellor with title of Verulam 1619, Visc. St. Albans 1621, pub. Novum Organum 1620, charged with corruption, and retires from public life 1621, pub. Henry VII. and 3rd part of Instauratio 1622, d. 1626. See also Macaulay's Essays; Dean Church in Men of Letters Series; Dr. Abbott's Life , etc.
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