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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England From the Earliest Times (till the Reign of Queen Victoria).
The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England From the Earliest Times - till the Reign of Queen Victoria Author:John Campbell General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1857 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: A. D. 1598-9. HIS PROSPEROUS CONDITION. 31 This I think may be considered the most auspicious period of Bacon's career. By increased practice at the bar a. d. 1593, he had overcome his pecuniary difficulties. He was 1599- sure of professional advancement upon the next vacancy. He had been slighted by Lady Hatton, but the Queen showed much more personal favour to him than to his rival, Coke, the Attorney General, and consulted him about the progress and conduct of all her law and revenue causes. She not only gave him frequent audiences at her palace, but visited him and dined with him in a quiet way in his lodge at Twickenham." His literary eminence was very great both in England and on the Continent, -- not only from what he had already published, but from the great works he was known to have in hand, an outline of which he was at all times willing to communicate to such as were capable of appreciating his plans and discoveries. Above all, his reputation was as yet untarnished. His sudden wheel from the liberal to the conservative side -- an occurrence which, even in our days, society easily pardons from its frequency -- was then considered merely as the judicious correction of a youthful indiscretion. All was now bright hope with him for the future -- without self-reproach when he reflected on the past. CHAPTER LIII. CONTINUATION OF THE LIFE OF LORD BACON TO THE END OF THE REIGN OF ELIZABETH. Transaction's now come upon us, which, though they did not seriously mar Bacon's fortunes, have affixed a greater stain upon his memory than even that judicial corruption by which he was at once precipitated ...« less