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" Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. So as he may justly be celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of... "
The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ... - Page 455
by Andrew Amos - 1846 - 551 pages
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The Great Oyer of Poisoning: The Trial of the Earl of Somerset for the ...

Andrew Amos - Poisoning - 1846 - 598 pages
...should occasion hasty inferences being drawn for detecting it, Sir F. Bacon labours to aggravate tlie offence of poisoning by very unworthy artifices. For...prospective law, framed on the spur of the occasion of one Rane, a cook, who had put poison in a vessel of yeast, by which seventeen people were killed. Rane...
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A Brief Plea for the Old Faith, and the Old Times, of "Merrie England," when ...

Frank Fairplay - 1846 - 96 pages
...Lord Bacon pronounces him the best after Edward the 1st. " Hia Jaws," says that great man, " $re deep, not vulgar ; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of prudence for the future, to make the state of his people still more and more happy, after the manner...
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The Speeches of the Right Honourable the Earl of Chatham in the Houses of ...

William Pitt (Earl of Chatham) - Great Britain - 1848 - 208 pages
...the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur...the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the legislators in...
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The Constitutional History of England from the Accession of Henry VII. to ...

Henry Hallam - Constitutional history - 1849 - 800 pages
...Ьоеп highly praised by Lord Bacon as "deep sutute of and not vulgar, not made upon the Fine>spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence for the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella: The Catholic, Volume 3

William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1849 - 598 pages
...Certainly his times for good commonwealth's laws did excel. * * * * For his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular The immense increase of empire, and the corresponding developement of the national resources, not only...
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Southey's Common-place Book, Volume 3

Robert Southey - Anecdotes - 1850 - 918 pages
...celebrated for the best lawgiver to this nation after Edward I. " For his laws (whoso marks them well) are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon the spur...particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy, after the manner of the...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 968 pages
...the best lawgiver to this nation after King Edward the First; for his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of...the present, but out of providence for the future, to make tlie estate of his people still more and more happy, after the manner of the legislators in...
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Select British Eloquence: Embracing the Best Speeches Entire, of the Most ...

Chauncey Allen Goodrich - Great Britain - 1852 - 976 pages
...the best lawgiver to this Datioo after King Edward the First; for his laws, wbuso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for the preseijt, bat oat of providence for the future, to maki: the estate of his people still more and more...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...the best lawgiver to this nation, after King Edward the First ; for his laws, whoso marks them wrell, are deep, and not vulgar; not made upon the spur of a particular occasion for ihe present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more...
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History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic, Volume 1

William Hickling Prescott - Spain - 1852 - 582 pages
...excel. •»••• For his laws, whoso marks them well, are deep, and not vulgar ; not made upon tho spur of a particular occasion for the present, but out of providence of the future, to make the estate of his people still more and more happy ; after the manner of the...
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