...afterwards, in conversation, " I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years ; but ¡t was the justest censure in Parliament that was these...notoriously corrupt ; in some future time, when the nation may imperatively demand a reformation of the judicial tribunals, some great Russian, famous as a thinker...

...were not the greatest sinners in Israel upon whom the wall of Shilo fell." And further, in cipher, "I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years." On his first day in Che Tower, Bacon sent a letter to the Marquis of Buckingham; vnitten, he said,...

...said to his friends (as I find it recorded in a manuscript of Dr. Rawley's in the Lambeth Library), " I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years." 1 In the Latin version Rawley adds, quam pratens obienavi ; which gives this list a peculiar value....

...that the Lords' sentence upon him had been a just one, 'for reformation sake'. Elsewhere he noted that 'it was the justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years.'44 He saw no inconsistency in writing (to Buckingham) that he had 'clean hands and a clean heart',...

...litigants — a common practice even when cases were pending. Creighton quoted Bacon as saying at the time, "I was the justest judge that was in England these fifty years; but it was the justest censure that was in Parliament these two hundred vears" (vi). CHAPTER 3 1. For other discussions of the influences...

...cipher, on paper left by Bacon at his death, his first biographer, Rawley, found the famous statement, "I was the justest judge that was in England these...was the justest censure in Parliament that was these 200 years." The effects of the indictment were good. It lessened corruption in office, and it set a...

...relative scale, he had indeed shared 'the abuse of the times'. So he could affirm, paradoxically, that 'I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in parliament that was these two hundred years' (ibid. 560). The final paradox is this coexistence within his personality of the two opposed states...

...pleasure ; to be forever incapable of any office, place, or employment in the state or commonwealth ; and forbidden to sit in Parliament or come within...notoriously corrupt ; in some future time, when the nation may imperatively demand a reformation of the judicial tribunals, some great Russian, famous as a thinker...

...have considered that a notorious abuse, in which other chancellors had participated, was re/ >nncd in his punishment. He is reported to have said, afterwards,...justest censure in Parliament that was these two hundred yean." The courts of Russia are now notoriously corrupt ; to some future time, when the nation nviy...

...London. James did refuse, however, to grant Bacon a full pardon. In his private notebook Bacon observed, "I was the justest judge that was in England these...censure in Parliament that was these two hundred years" (Works, 7:179). Bacon, Works, edited by James Spedding, 14 vols. (1874). Fulton H. Anderson, Francis...