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

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            as the Arts and Policy of a Great Stateſman, then; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s172" xml:space="preserve">who la-
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            boured by all induſtrious, and ſecret Means, to ſuppreſs,
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            and keep him down; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s173" xml:space="preserve">leſt, if he had riſen, he might have obſcur-
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            ed his Glory.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s175" xml:space="preserve">But though; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s176" xml:space="preserve">he ſtood long at a ſtay, in the Dayes of his Mi-
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            ſtreſs Queen Elizabeth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s177" xml:space="preserve">ret, after the change, and Coming
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            in of his New Maſter, King James, he made a great pro-
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            greſs; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s178" xml:space="preserve">by whom he was much comforted, in Places of Truſt,
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            Honour, and Revenue, I have ſeen, a Letter of his Lord-
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            ſhips, to King James, wherein he makes Acknowledgement;
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            </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s179" xml:space="preserve">That he was that Maſter to him, that had raiſed and ad-
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            vanced him nine times; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s180" xml:space="preserve">Thrice in Dignity, and Six
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            times in Office, His Offices (as I conceive) were Counſel
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            learned extraordinary, to his Majeſty, as he bad been, to
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            Queen Elizabeth; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s181" xml:space="preserve">Kings Solliciter General; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s182" xml:space="preserve">His Maje-
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            ſties Atturney General; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s183" xml:space="preserve">Counſellor of Eſtate, being yet
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            but Atturney; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s184" xml:space="preserve">Lord Keeper of the Great Seal of England; </s>
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            Laſtly, Lord Chancellor: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s186" xml:space="preserve">which two laſt Places, though they
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            be the ſame, in Authority and Power; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s187" xml:space="preserve">yet they differ in Pa-
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            tent, Height, and Favour of the Prince. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s188" xml:space="preserve">Since whoſe time,
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            none of his Succeſſors, until this preſent Honourable Lord; </s>
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            did ever bear the Title of Lord Chancellor. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s190" xml:space="preserve">His Digni-
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            ties were firſt Knight, then Baron of Verulam; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s191" xml:space="preserve">Laſtly,
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            Viſcount Saint Alban: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s192" xml:space="preserve">Beſides other good Gifts and Boun-
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            ties of the Hand, which his Majesty gave him, Both out of
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            the Broad-Seal, and out of the Aleniation-Office, To the va-
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            lue, in both of eighteen hundred pounds per annum: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s193" xml:space="preserve">which
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            with his Mannour of Gorhambury; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s194" xml:space="preserve">and other Lands and
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            Poſſeſſions, near thereunto adjoyning, aw
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            ounting to a third
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            part more, he retained to his Dying Day.</s>
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            <s xml:id="echoid-s196" xml:space="preserve">Towards his Riſing years, not before, he entered into a mar-
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            ried Eſtate, and took to Wife, Alice, one of the Daughters,
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            and Co heirs of Benedict Barnham, Eſquire, and Alder-
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            man of London, with whom he received, a ſufficiently am-
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            ple, and liberal Portion, in Marriage. </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s197" xml:space="preserve">Children he had
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            none: </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s198" xml:space="preserve">which, though they be the means to perpetuate our
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            Names, after our Deaths; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s199" xml:space="preserve">yet he had other Iſſues to perpe-
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            tuate his Name; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s200" xml:space="preserve">The Iſſues of his Brain; </s>
            <s xml:id="echoid-s201" xml:space="preserve">in which be was </s>
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