Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon —— Baron of Verulam, Vviscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England; Written During the Reign of King James the First

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ISBN: 9781330483909 出版年：2016 页码：385 Forgotten Books

In divulging Memcires of this nature, the Englifll have heen formerly looked upon as a referv'd Nation, whatever opinion may he now had of them. And if thcfi' which are laid hefore the Reader, he not adorned with that varic ty of Even ts,which may he found in fame others,he will pleafi: to rememher what Places the Writer held, and in what Peaceable Times he lived. His Lordlhip ohferving, that Times are like Ways fome are more Uphill and' Down-hill, fome are more Flat and Plain the one is better for the Liver, the other For the Writer.