 | Emily Cooper - Great Britain - 1877 - 550 pages
...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 judgment was pronounced. The sentence... | |
 | Emily Cooper - Great Britain - 1877 - 560 pages
...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 judgment was pronounced. The sentence... | |
 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 730 pages
...his hand, and whether he would stand to it or no ; who presently returned with 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... | |
 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...visit him and aek whether it was his own hand that was subscribed to the confession. lie replied, " It. is my act, my hand, my heart, I beseech your lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." He was fined £40,000, and sentenced to be Imprisoned in the Tower during... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1879 - 712 pages
...and would stand by his signature. He replied to the question : "My lords, it is my act, my hand, and my heart. I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." He was sentenced by the House of Lords, on the 3d of May, 1621, to a fine of forty thousand pounds,... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - Encyclopedias - 1879 - 836 pages
...deputation of the lords being appointed to wait on him, to ask if the confession was his, he said : " It is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your lordships, be merciful to a broken reed." His humiliation was complete, and his spirit was crushed within him.... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...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 dejection. The next day, the sergeant-at-arms... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - Criminal law - 1880 - 668 pages
...well have softened the most obdurate natures. " My Lords," said Bacon, "it is my act, my hand, iny heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." They withdrew ; and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest dejection. The next day, the sergeant-at-arms... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - English essays - 1881 - 386 pages
...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 dejection. The next day, the sergeant-at-arms... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 480 pages
...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 he merciful to a broken reed.' They withdrew; and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest dejection.... | |
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it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed. 
