item: #1 of 5 id: 13888 author: Church, R. W. (Richard William) title: Bacon date: None words: 71499 flesch: 64 summary: But immediately on Salisbury's death he began, May 29th, a letter in which he said that he had never yet been able to show his affection to the King, having been as a hawk tied to another's fist; and if, as was said to one that spake great words, _Amice, verba tua desiderant civitatem_, your Majesty say to me, _Bacon, your words require a place to speak them_, yet that place or not place was with the King. While Bacon, in the shade, had been laying the foundations of his philosophy of nature, and vainly suing for legal or political employment, another man had been steadily rising in the Queen's favour and carrying all before him at Court--Robert Devereux, Lord Essex; and with Essex Bacon had formed an acquaintance which had ripened into an intimate and affectionate friendship. keywords: bacon; buckingham; business; cecil; coke; course; court; day; days; essex; favour; friend; general; god; good; government; hath; honour; hope; house; interest; james; judge; king; knowledge; law; letter; life; lord; lordship; majesty; man; matter; men; mind; nature; new; parliament; philosophy; place; power; public; queen; service; sir; state; things; thought; time; truth; way; words; work; world; years cache: 13888.txt plain text: 13888.txt item: #2 of 5 id: 36650 author: Smedley, William T. (William Thomas) title: The Mystery of Francis Bacon date: None words: 58315 flesch: 66 summary: In 1679 was published Baconiana, or Certain Genuine Remains of Sir Francis Bacon, &c., by Bishop Tennison, but it contains no better account of his life. Sir Francis Bacon_. keywords: advancement; age; anthony; art; author; bacon; books; burghley; chapter; course; court; edition; emblem; england; english; following; france; francis bacon; french; god; good; greek; hand; history; john; knowledge; known; language; latin; learning; left; letter; life; light; literature; lord; lordship; man; men; mind; nature; page; period; philosophy; place; present; queen; read; second; shakespeare; sir; spedding; state; subject; suit; things; time; title; translation; truth; use; volume; words; work; world; years cache: 36650.txt plain text: 36650.txt item: #3 of 5 id: 39149 author: Crain, Dorothy title: Ciphers For the Little Folks A Method of Teaching the Greatest Work of Sir Francis Bacon date: None words: 6534 flesch: 75 summary: You see that by using a capital letter for the _a_ form and a small letter for the _b_ form you were able to hide within the phrase _Biliteral Cipher_ the word, _key_. In Lesson XIV the phrase Biliteral Cipher is made to contain the hidden word Key by the use of a capital letter for the _a_ form and a small letter for the _b_ form. keywords: alphabet; b b; cipher; form; illustration; lesson; letters; o o cache: 39149.txt plain text: 39149.txt item: #4 of 5 id: 47424 author: Morgan, Appleton title: The Shakespearean Myth: William Shakespeare and Circumstantial Evidence date: None words: 96735 flesch: 67 summary: Mr. William Shakespeare produced about a hundred less. He gives an account of his fellow-countyman, and, coming as it does, next to Dominie Ward's, nearer to the lifetime of William Shakespeare than any chronicle extant, (Malone admits it was not written later than 1680), we give it entire: Mr. William Shakespeare was born at Stratford-upon-Avon, in the county of Warwick. keywords: actor; author; authority; authorship; bacon; ben; book; case; copy; day; days; death; dramas; edition; elizabeth; english; evidence; fact; folio; genius; good; greene; hamlet; hand; henry; history; james; john; john shakespeare; jonson; king; knowledge; law; letter; life; like; line; literature; london; lord; malone; man; manager; manager shakespeare; matter; men; nature; new; note; original; page; plays; poet; question; record; robert; scene; school; shakespearean; sir; sonnets; sort; stage; stratford; testimony; theater; theory; thing; thomas; time; truth; verses; way; white; william shakespeare; wit; works; world; writing; years; young cache: 47424.txt plain text: 47424.txt item: #5 of 5 id: 47425 author: Durning-Lawrence, Edwin, Sir title: The Shakespeare Myth date: None words: 12057 flesch: 71 summary: A passport given to Bacon's brother Anthony in 1586 from the court of Navarre, is signed Biron. The Tempest, with Timon of Athens and Henry VIII., seems to be largely concerned with the story of Bacon's fall from his high offices in 1621, and Emile Montégut, writing in the Revue des Deux Mondes of August, 1865, says that the Tempest is evidently the author's literary testament. keywords: bacon; book; english; figure; folio; hand; hog; king; lines; page; plays; reader; shakespeare; title; william; words cache: 47425.txt plain text: 47425.txt