A book of English Essays
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His character, however, was not proof against some meaner temptations than those of power. In 162 1 he was charged with taking bribes in his judicial office, and brought to trial before the House of Lords. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to pay a heavy fine and to be imprisoned during the pleasure of the king. His imprisonment lasted but a few days, and he soon received a practical pardon from the king; but he never entered public life again. After his disgrace he retired to his estate at St. ...Albans, and spent the few remaining years of his life in those philosophical studies in which he had long been interested, and to which the noblest efforts of his career had been given. He died in 1626.
It must be admitted that the moral character of Bacon was not commensurate with his intellectual power. Later students of his life, it is true, have shown that he hardly deserves the last epithet of Pope's famous characterization — "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. " 295 296 Biographical Sketches and Notes It is probable that the judicial misconduct which caused his down- fall was no worse than that of other men in the corrupt times of James First; but it is impossible to deny that his motives through- out his career were alloyed with a certain mean selfishness that led him sometimes into sycophancy, sometimes into ingratitude if not treachery, and later resulted in those acts that drove him out of public life.
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His character, however, was not proof against some meaner temptations than those of power. In 162 1 he was charged with taking bribes in his judicial office, and brought to trial before the House of Lords. He pleaded guilty, was sentenced to pay a heavy fine and to be imprisoned during the pleasure of the king. His imprisonment lasted but a few days, and he soon received a practical pardon from the king; but he never entered public life again. After his disgrace he retired to his estate at St. ...Albans, and spent the few remaining years of his life in those philosophical studies in which he had long been interested, and to which the noblest efforts of his career had been given. He died in 1626.
It must be admitted that the moral character of Bacon was not commensurate with his intellectual power. Later students of his life, it is true, have shown that he hardly deserves the last epithet of Pope's famous characterization — "The wisest, brightest, meanest of mankind. " 295 296 Biographical Sketches and Notes It is probable that the judicial misconduct which caused his down- fall was no worse than that of other men in the corrupt times of James First; but it is impossible to deny that his motives through- out his career were alloyed with a certain mean selfishness that led him sometimes into sycophancy, sometimes into ingratitude if not treachery, and later resulted in those acts that drove him out of public life.
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