Word: bacon
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...officers of this meeting were the same as at the first, except that Mr. Joseph Lee took the place of Mr. Robert Bacon as one of the judges of sparring...
...officers of the meeting were: judge, Mr. C. H. Kip; judge of wrestling, Mr. W. A. Gaston; referee of sparring, Mr. John Boyle O'Reilly; judges of sparring, Dr. Wm. Appleton, Mr. Robert Bacon...
...Discuss the jurisdiction and procedure of the Court of Star Chamber. 13. Discuss the history and jurisdiction of the Court of High Commission. 14. Discuss parliamentary procedure in the 17th Century. 15. Was there sufficient reason for the execution of Earl Stafford? 16. The character of Lord Bacon as a man and as a judge. 17. Is society an organism, and can we reason from the development of the individual to that of the body politic? 18. Are the Romans to be commended or condemned for their policy toward the Greeks? 19. Should the Roman Empire be regarded as having...
Lord Houghton, at the Scott Centenary, said of the world's great litterateurs, that they have seldom left descendants. England has no Shakespeare, no Milton, no Bacon, no Newton, no Pope, no Byron; Italy has no Dante, no Petrarch, no Alfieri, no Ariosto; Germany has no Goethe, no Schiller, no Heine; and France has no Montaigne, no Voltaire, and no Descartes...
...understand the matter, the strictures, made lately on that department, have been not on the increased opportunities and requirements in English composition, but on the lack of opportunity afforded for the study of English literature in general. The department is strong in its Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton and Bacon courses, and in Anglo-Saxon and early English; but for the study of the mass of literature since the time of Chaucer, with the exception of the masters whom I have mentioned, we have but two half courses given in alternate years. But the writings of not more than ten or twelve...