Bacon, Francis, Sylva sylvarum : or, a natural history in ten centuries

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            Sir Amyas Paulet, then Employed Ambaſſadour Lieger,
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            into France; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s117" xml:space="preserve">By whom, he was, after a while, held fit to be en-
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            truſted, with ſome Meſſage, or Advertiſement, to the
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            Queen; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s118" xml:space="preserve">which haring performed with great Approbation, he
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            returned back into France again; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s119" xml:space="preserve">with intention to continue,
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            for ſome years, there. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s120" xml:space="preserve">In his abſence, in France, his Father,
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            the Lord Keeper, died; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s121" xml:space="preserve">Having collected, (as I have heard,
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            of Knowing Perſons) a conſiderable ſum of Money, which
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            he had ſeparated, with Intention, to have made a competent
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            Purchaſe of Land, for the Lively hood of this his youngeſt
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            Son; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s122" xml:space="preserve">(who was onely unprovided for; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s123" xml:space="preserve">and though he was
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            the young eſt in years, yet be was not the loweſt, in his Fathers
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            affection;) </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s124" xml:space="preserve">But the ſaid Purchaſe, being unaccompliſbed, at
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            his Fathers Death, there came no greater ſhare to him, than his
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            ſingle Part, and Portion, of the Money, dividable among ſt
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            five Brethren; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s125" xml:space="preserve">By which means, he lived, in ſome ſtreits,
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            and Neceſſities, in his younger years. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s126" xml:space="preserve">For as for that pleaſant
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            Scite, and Mannor of Gorhambury, he came not to it, till
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            many years after, by the Death, of his Deareſt Brother, Mr.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s127" xml:space="preserve">Anthony Bacon; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s128" xml:space="preserve">a Gentleman, equal to him, in Height of
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            Wit; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s129" xml:space="preserve">Though inferiour to him, in the Endowments of Lear-
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            ning and Knowledge; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s130" xml:space="preserve">Unto whom he was, moſt nearly con-
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            joyned in affection; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s131" xml:space="preserve">They two being the ſole Male-iſſue of aſe-
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            cond Venter.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s133" xml:space="preserve">Being returned from Travail, he applied himſelf, to the
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            study of the Common-Law; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s134" xml:space="preserve">which he took upon him to be
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            his Profeſſion. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s135" xml:space="preserve">In which, he obtained to great Excellency
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            Though he made that, (as himſelf ſaid) but as an acceſſary,
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            and not as his Principal ſtudy. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s136" xml:space="preserve">He wrote ſeveral Tractates,
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            upon that Subject. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s137" xml:space="preserve">Wherein, though ſome great Maſters,
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            ofthe Law did out-go him in Bulk, and Particularities of
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            Caſes; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s138" xml:space="preserve">yet, in the Science, of the Grounds, and Myſteries,
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            of the Law, he was exceeded by none, In this way, he was af-
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            ter a while, ſworn, of the Queens Counſel Learned, Ex-
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            traordinary; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s139" xml:space="preserve">agrace, (if I erre not) ſcarce known before.
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s140" xml:space="preserve">He ſeated himſelf for the commodity of his ſtudies, and Pra-
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            ctiſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s141" xml:space="preserve">amongſt the Honourable Society, of Greyes-Inn;
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s142" xml:space="preserve">Of which Houſe; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s143" xml:space="preserve">he was a Member; </s>
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