| Charles Knight - Great Britain - 1857 - 574 pages
...conclusion at which we could arrive would be the opinion of Bacon himself, as recorded by Dr. Rawley : " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years; but it was the justest censure ia parliament that was there these two hundred years." If the stern severity of the House of Commons,... | |
| American essays - 1868 - 796 pages
...participated, was reformed in his punishment. He is reported to have said, afterwards, in conversation, " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years." The courts of Russia are now notoriously corrupt ;... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1857 - 880 pages
...(as I find it recorded in a commonplace of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Library), " I was the justes t judge that was In England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Rawley adds, quum prcesens... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1858 - 882 pages
...to his friends ias I find it recorded in a manuscript of Dr. Rnwley's in the Lambeth Library), " 1 was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justes t censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Hawlcy adds,... | |
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1861 - 446 pages
...he — hopes may turn out to be the public good. The court ji| is corrupt, though the judge may be pure. In a few brave words he states the case: "I...St. Albans ends the ministerial passion for reform. No further search is made into Chancery iniquities, nor does the House remember to proceed with its... | |
| William Hepworth Dixon - 1861 - 52 pages
...public good. The court was corrupt, though the judge might be pure. In a few brave words he stated the case : " I was the justest judge that was in England...censure that was in Parliament these two hundred years." 26. The personal gains which the tools of Lady Buckingham sought from the persecution of Lord Bacon... | |
| Education - 1862 - 562 pages
...courts, to which he himself fell a victim. Hence the grand verdict he himself pronounced upon his own case : " I was the justest Judge that was in England...censure that was in Parliament these two hundred years." This conviction grows upon ns more and more strongly as we read in Mr. Dixon's graphic pages how the... | |
| Philip Smith - 1863 - 564 pages
...philosophy, by which his name has been immortalized. His own reflection on his fall was this : — " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in parliament that was there these 200 years." This praise could not be awarded to the cruel sentence... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1864 - 556 pages
...his friends (as I find it recorded in a commonplace book of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Librar)-), " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years; but it was the justest censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Rawley adds, quam praaens obsenmvi;... | |
| Philip Smith - 1867 - 428 pages
...philosophy, by which his name has been immortalized. His own retlection on his fall was thls : — " 1 was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but it was the justest censure in parliament that was there these 200 years." This praise could not be awarded to the cruel sentence... | |
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