Kurzbeschreibung von: Personal History of Lord Bacon

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: chance against him in debate; in committee Yelverton I. and Coke had none. Why was he left behind ? 11. Other men got on. Coke became Attorney-General, Fleming Solicitor-General. Raleigh received his knighthood, Cecil his knighthood. He alone won no spur, no place. Time passed. Devereux became a Privy Councillor. Cobham got the Cinq Ports, Kaleigh the patent of Virginia. Years again raced on. A new king came in, and still no change. Cecil became an Earl, Howard an Earl. What kept the greatest of them down? It was certainly not that he was hard like Popham, or crazed like Devereux, or gnarled like Coke. A soft voice, a laughing lip, a melting heart, made him hosts of friends. No child, no woman, could resist the spell of his sweet speech, of his tender smile, of his grace without study, his frankness without guile. Yet where he failed, men the most sullen and morose got on. 12. Why did he not win his way to place ? He sought it: never man with more passionate haste; for his big brain beat with a victorious consciousness of parts: he hungered, as for food, to rule and bless mankind. This question must be met. While men of far lower birth and claims got posts and honours, solicitorships, judgeships, embassies, portfolios, how came this strong man to pass the age of forty-six without gaining power or place ? Can it have been because he was servile and corrupt ? 13. Bank and pay, the grace of kings, the smiles of ministers, were in Bacon's days, as in other days before and since, the wages of men who knew how to sink their views, to spend their years, to pledge their thought, their love, I. 13. their faith, for a yard of ribbon or a loaf of bread. If ? Bacon were a man prostituting glorious gifts and strong convictions for a beck or nod, a pension or a jslace, why did...