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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volum 2 James Spedding Visualització completa - 1881 |
Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volum 2 James Spedding Visualització completa - 1881 |
Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volum 2 James Spedding Visualització completa - 1881 |
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Passatges populars
Pàgina 341 - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Pàgina 109 - England,' it is declared and enacted, that no freeman may be taken or imprisoned or be disseised of his...
Pàgina 378 - Lord, soundest and searchest the depths and secrets of all hearts; thou acknowledgest the upright of heart: thou judgest the hypocrite; thou ponderest men's thoughts and doings as in a balance; thou measurest their intentions as with a line; vanity and crooked ways cannot be hid from Thee.
Pàgina 109 - Nevertheless, against the tenor of the said statutes and other the good laws and statutes of your Realm to that end provided, divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause...
Pàgina 337 - My conceit of his person was never increased towards him by his place or honours ; but I have and do reverence him, for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want.
Pàgina 378 - This vine, which thy right hand hath planted in this nation, I have ever prayed unto thee, that it might have the first and the latter rain, and that it might stretch her branches to the seas, and to the floods.
Pàgina 379 - Lord ; and ever as my worldly blessings were exalted, so secret darts from thee have pierced me; and when I have ascended before men, I have descended in humiliation before thee.
Pàgina 305 - He that took the silver basin and ewer for a bribe, thinketh that it will never come out. But he may now know that I know it, and I know it not alone ; there be more beside me that know it. Oh, briber and bribery ! He was never a good man that will so take bribes. Nor can I believe that he that is a briber will be a good justice. It will never be merry in England till we have the skins of such.
Pàgina 109 - ... divers of your subjects have of late been imprisoned without any cause showed ; and when for their deliverance they were brought before your justices by your Majesty's writs of habeas corpus, there to undergo and receive as the court should order, and their keepers commanded to certify the causes of their detainer, no cause was certified, but that they were detained by your Majesty's special command, signified by the lords of your Privy Council, and yet were returned back to several prisons,...