Mr. Bacon, if you have any tooth against me, pluck it out; for it will do you more hurt, than all the teeth in your head will do you good. A Book about Lawyers - Page 201by John Cordy Jeaffreson - 1867 - 432 pagesFull view - About this book
| Edward Foss - Courts - 1857 - 540 pages
...; and the less you Bpeak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it," drew this reply from Coke : " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness...you, who are less than little, less than the least ; " with other insulting language. " Herewith stirred," Bacon proceeds, "yet I said no more but this:... | |
| Edward Foss - 1857 - 552 pages
...in your head will do you good." Bacon's sneering answer, " Mr. Attorney, I respect you ; I fear you not ; and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it," drew this reply from Coke : " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are less... | |
| John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon (coldly). — " Mr. Attorney, 1 respect you ; I fear you not : and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." Mr. Attorney. — " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are less than little,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - American literature - 1857 - 522 pages
...replied, ' The less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it. • Coke replied, ' I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are lese than little, less than the least.1 Coke was exhibited on the staac, for his ill usage of Kawleigh,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - English literature - 1858 - 574 pages
...for it will do you more hurt than all the teeth in your head will do you good." Bacon replied — " The less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." Coke replied — " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are less than little,... | |
| John Stoughton - London (England) - 1864 - 302 pages
...the teeth in your head will do you good." "Mr. Attorney, I respect you," said Bacon, "but I fear you not ; and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." He replied : " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are less than the little,... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - Authors - 1866 - 570 pages
...for it will do you more hurt than all the tooth in your head will do you good." Bacon replied — " The less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." Coke replied — " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards you, who are less than little,... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - Biography - 1867 - 370 pages
...all the teeth in your head will do you good." Said Bacon. " Mr. Attorney, I respect you; I fear you not; and the less you speak of your own greatness...you, who are less than little; less than the least." Bacon. " Mr. Attorney, do not depress me so far; for I have been your better, and may be again, when... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1868 - 444 pages
...you not : and the less you speak of your own greatness, the more I will think of it." He replied, " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards...you, who are less than little ; less than the least -" and other such strange light terms he gave me, with that insulting which cannot be expressed. Herewith... | |
| Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1868 - 466 pages
...you not : and the less you speak of your own greatuess, the more I will think of it." He replied, " I think scorn to stand upon terms of greatness towards...you, who are less than little ; less than the least ;" and other such strange light terms he gave me, with that insulting which cannot be expressed. Herewith... | |
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