Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Written During the Reign of King James the First; Now Collected, and Augmented with Several Letters and Memoires, Address'd by Him to the King and Duk

Excerpt from Letters of Sr. Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England: Written During the Reign of King James the First; Now Collected, and Augmented With Several Letters and Memoires, Address'd by Him to the King and Duke of Buckingham, Which Were Never Before Published

In divulging Memoires of this nature, the Englilh have heen formerly looked upon as a r'efefiv'd Nation, whatever opinion ma) he now had of them. And if thefe which are laid he fire the Reader, he not adorned with that varie ty of Events, which may he found in fame others, he willpleajh t o rememher what Places the Writer held, and in Peaceable Times he lived His Lordlhip ohjhrving, that Times are like Ways fome are more Up-hill and Down-hill, fome are more Flat and Plain; the one is better for the Liver, the other for the Writer.

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