 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 páginas
...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... | |
 | 1873 - 930 páginas
...selfcondemnatory paper. Yet what is the reply of the degraded nobleman to their interrogation ? " My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to bo merciful to a broken reed." " A broken reed," of a truth ; yet this is ho who wrote so nobly... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 672 páginas
...hand, and whether he would stand to it or no ; who presently returned witli his answer : " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." The next was to move the King to sequester the seal ; who at once commissioned the... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - 1874 - 456 páginas
...visit him and ask whether it was his own hand that was subscribed to the confession. He replied, " It is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." He was fined £4-0,000, and sentenced to be imprisoned in the Tower during the king's... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1875 - 452 páginas
...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... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 páginas
...document with his own hand, and whether or not he would persist in it, to 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 Great Seal was sequestered and immediately put in commission.... | |
 | Robert Chambers, Robert Carruthers - 1876 - 870 páginas
...House of Lords, appointed to inquire whether the confession was subscribed by himself, he answered : ' $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $ $^'_' $ ' $ $ $ $z% $ $ $ to be merciful to a broken reed.' Banished from public life, he had now ample leisure to attend to... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 550 páginas
...he had himself subscribed that confession. Bacon was now quite broken down: ' My lords,' said he, ' it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.' He was too ill to appear in Westminster Hall the next day, when the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 páginas
...defence." The Lords sought to know if he had really signed such a confession. "My lords," said Bacon, " it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." He is condemned to pay a fine of £40,000, to be imprisoned in the... | |
 | Emily Cooper - 1877 - 560 páginas
...he had himself subscribed that confession. Bacon was now quite broken down : ' My lords,' said he, ' it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.' He was too ill to appear in Westminster Hall the next day, when the... | |
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it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. 
