...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 scrgeant-at-arms...

...accordingly submitted, and coached hits confession in a form wfaich he thus acknowledged as his own : — f It is my act, my hand ; my heart ; I beseech your lordships be merciful unto a broken reed !" The long did not interpose, and the lords adjudged upon this humbled...

...the grossest corruption in his high office, was really his; and the unhappy man could only reply, " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart; I beseech your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed ?" York House was now "assured" to the King by an act of parliament, who hastened to bestow it on his...

...Upon being asked whether the confession which had been read was written by his own hand, he replied, " It is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." He was deprived the next day of the great seal : and on the 3d of May, having in the meantime been...

...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...

...merely if the signature to the paper which they showed him was genuine? He passionately exclaimed,— " My Lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart. I beseech * Except Sir Edward Coke. your Lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." Shocked CHAP. at witnessing...

...degradation of such a name might well have softened the most obdurate natures. "My lords." said Bacon, g so, he at once gave to the inductive method an importance and dignity which had never befo They withdrew, and he again retired to his chamber in the deepest dejection. The next day the sergeanl-at-arms...

...House of Lords, appointed to inquire whether the confession wa» subscribed by himself, he answered, 'It is my act,\ my hand, my heart : I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed.' Banished from public ife, he had now ample leisure to attend to his philosophical and literary pursuits....

...expression of sorrow and repentance which under any other circumstances would have been deeply touching, " It is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your lordships, press not upon a broken eeed." Being fully convicted of these grave charges, he was deprived by parliament...

...-whether this was his true and real confession, he used the following noble and touching language: " My lords, it is my act, my hand, my heart ; I beseech your lordships to be merciful to a broken reed." The sentence for the crime is well known. Wehave no wish to justify these deeply humiliating and disgraceful...