...thirteen Lords was sent to him, to know whether it were really his. His answer to them was, " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." At the petition of the Peers, the seals were sequestrated, Bacon...

...thirteen Lords was sent to him, to know whether it were really his. His answer to them was, " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." At the petition of the Peers, the seals were sequestrated, Bacon...

...degradation of such a name, might well have softened the most obdurate natures. " My lords," said Bacon, " it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew : and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest...

...it with his own hand, and whether or not he would stand to it, " unto which he answered, My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart : I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." The seal was sequestered, and immediately put in commission. On the...

...accordingly submitted, and coached hits confession in a form wfaich he thus acknowledged as his own : — f It is my act, my hand ; my heart ; I beseech your lordships be merciful unto a broken reed !" The long did not interpose, and the lords adjudged upon this humbled ncbleman, a fine of 40,OOW.,...

...grossest corruption in his high office, was really his; and the unhappy man could only reply, " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart; I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed ?" York House was now "assured" to the King by an act of parliament,...

...Upon being asked whether the confession which had been read was written by his own hand, he replied, " It is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." He was deprived the next day of the great seal : and on the 3d of...

...degradation of such a name might well have softened the most obdurate natures. " My Lords," said Bacon, " it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew ; and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest...

...degradation of such a name might well have softened the most obdurate natures. "My lords." said Bacon, g so, he at once gave to the inductive method an importanc to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew, and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest...

...subscribed to the same ; and their lordships being returned, reported, that the lord chancellor said, "It is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships, be merciful unto a broken reed." On the 2d of May, the seals having been sequestered, the House resolved to proceed to judgment on the...