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... less . All glorious charac- ters , all serious things , if not gone wholly from the minds of men , lingered in their memories only to be reviled . When Bacon became the meanest of mankind , Raleigh was assailed , and Shakespeare driven ...
... less . All glorious charac- ters , all serious things , if not gone wholly from the minds of men , lingered in their memories only to be reviled . When Bacon became the meanest of mankind , Raleigh was assailed , and Shakespeare driven ...
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... less fair ; though he will not , even for the sake of Pope , call Bacon the meanest of mankind . Lingard paints him with a more unctuous hate . Macaulay , in turn , is fierce and gay : his sketch of Rembrandt power : his lights too high ...
... less fair ; though he will not , even for the sake of Pope , call Bacon the meanest of mankind . Lingard paints him with a more unctuous hate . Macaulay , in turn , is fierce and gay : his sketch of Rembrandt power : his lights too high ...
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... less than Popham , his intelligence for less than Coke . How , then , could he be wise ? Wisest and meanest - there is the rub ! But turn the case round . How if his virtues , not his vices , kept him down so long ? How if his honesty ...
... less than Popham , his intelligence for less than Coke . How , then , could he be wise ? Wisest and meanest - there is the rub ! But turn the case round . How if his virtues , not his vices , kept him down so long ? How if his honesty ...
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... less than the stain of the world . As Cambridge fails to dry him into Broughton , Paris and 1. Sir Amias Paulett's Despatches in the Cott . MSS . , Calig . E. vii . 3 , 8 , 16 , 31 , 57 ; Lady Bacon to Anthony Bacon , Lambeth MSS . 651 ...
... less than the stain of the world . As Cambridge fails to dry him into Broughton , Paris and 1. Sir Amias Paulett's Despatches in the Cott . MSS . , Calig . E. vii . 3 , 8 , 16 , 31 , 57 ; Lady Bacon to Anthony Bacon , Lambeth MSS . 651 ...
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... less full of intellectual snares than are the three years spent in the voluptuous court of Henri Trois , among the dames and courtiers of France , of moral snares . In the train of Sir Amias Paulett , he rides at seventeen with that ...
... less full of intellectual snares than are the three years spent in the voluptuous court of Henri Trois , among the dames and courtiers of France , of moral snares . In the train of Sir Amias Paulett , he rides at seventeen with that ...
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