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  JAMES SPEDDING - LoveToKnow Article on JAMES SPEDDING   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In 1853 Ellis had to leave the work to Spedding, with the occasional assistance of Heath, who edited most of the legal writings.
Taken together these works contain practically all the material which exists in connection with the subject, collected and weighed with the utmost care and impartiality.
Spedding humorously emphasized his devotion to Bacon in the title of one of his non-Baconian works, Reviews and Discussions, Literary, Political and Historical, not relating to Bacon (1879); and his literary remains outside that one field are no longer of interest.
www.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SP/SPEDDING_JAMES.htm   (291 words)

  
 James Spedding - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Spedding (June 28, 1808 - March 9, 1881) was an English author, chiefly known as the editor of the works of Francis Bacon.
Spedding's great edition of Bacon was begun in 1847 in collaboration with RE Ellis and DD Heath.
Spedding humorously emphasized his devotion to Bacon in the title of one of his non-Baconian works, Reviews and Discussions, Literary, Political and Historical, not relating to Bacon (1879); and his other literary works are no longer of interest.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/James_Spedding   (292 words)

  
 speddinglifeandtimes
Spedding, in the original edition, gave every scrap of Bacon's writings, not included in teh previous series, which he could discover, adding also various papers conjecturally Bacon's and supplied the reader with all necessary apparatus for an intelligent apprehension of the occasion, scope, and influence of these writings.
Spedding's order and authority in all points; his part has been to retain those portions which he judges to be of most interest to American readers.
Spedding's word in a work of this kind; if he wishes for final authorities, he will find abundant help in his search by a reference to Mr.
www.sirbacon.org /speddinglifeandtimes.htm   (836 words)

  
 Francis Bacon biography .ms   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At last in 1613 the death of Sir Thomas Fleming left a vacancy in the chief justiceship of the court of king's bench, and Bacon proposed to the king that Coke should be transferred from the court of common pleas to the king's bench.
Spedding has speculated that Bacon proposed this because in the court of king's bench there would be less danger of Coke confronting the king on questions of prerogative.
Students of Bacon's papers, notably Spedding, have remarked that Bacon's relations with James and his political sympathies with the royal party tended to blind him to the true character of certain courses of action, which can only be justified by a straining of political ethics.
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 Raleighall..htm
James, who was to blame for the whole sorry business, promised Gondomar that Raleigh would be publicly executed, but even the popular account of the knight's death is false.
The cowardly James, who shuddered at the mention of weapons and cried like a child when he was crossed, was insanely jealous of the brilliant courtier.
They convinced James I that the face of the central figure upholding the globe was a caricature of his own, and the enraged king ordered every copy of the engraving destroyed.
www.sirbacon.org /raleighall.html   (741 words)

  
 Nat' Academies Press, Biographical Memoirs V.80 (2001)
Spedding matriculated at the University of Michigan in the fall of 1920, from which he subsequently received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering in 1925 and an M.S. degree in analytical chemistry in 1926.
Spedding relates that their tourist-class tickets restricted their shipboard quarters only until they were beyond land; at that point they were allowed free access to all parts of the ship.
Frank Spedding retired as an active academician in 1972 at the age of 70 as emeritus professor of chemistry, physics, and metallurgy.
www.nap.edu /books/0309082811/html/300.html   (5139 words)

  
 Northumberland Manuscript
Spedding says that, while it is impossible to give an exact date, he could find nothing either in the scribbling upon the outside page, nor in what remains of the book itself, to indicate a date later than the reign of Queen Elizabeth.
Spedding so read it when the manuscript was very much clearer than it is now, we may, I think, be content to accept his evidence, more especially as close to it, a little to the left, stands the word "Phillipp" still plain for all to read.
In the middle of the reign of James I occurred the murder of Sir Thomas Overbury, instigated by Frances Howard, Lady Essex, and one of this lady's "principal agents "was a Mrs.
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 SIR LESLIE STEPHEN - LoveToKnow Article on SIR LESLIE STEPHEN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
At his fathers house he saw a good deal of the Abolitionists and other members of the Clapham sect, and the Macaulays, James Spedding, Sir Henry Taylor and Nassau Senior were intimate friends of his family.
In the autumn of 1882 he abandoned the direction of the Cornhill to James Payn, having accepted the more responsible duty of the editor of the Dictionary of National Biography, for the first planning and conception of which he was largely responsible.
In 1896 he wrote a memoir of his friend James Dykes Campbell for the second edition of Campbells Coleridge, and in 1897 he contributed a preface to the English translation of The Early Life of Wordsworth, by M. Legouis.
94.1911encyclopedia.org /S/ST/STEPHEN_SIR_LESLIE.htm   (1321 words)

  
 Leslie Stephen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Stephen was born at Kensington Gore in London, the brother of James Fitzjames Stephen and grandson of James Stephen.
At his father's house he saw a good deal of the Macaulays, James Spedding, Sir Henry Taylor and Nassau Senior.
, James Russell Lowell and Charles Eliot Norton, he settled in London and became a journalist, eventually editing the Cornhill Magazine in 1871 where R.L. Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, W.E. Norris, Henry James and James Payn figured among his contributors.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Leslie_Stephen   (438 words)

  
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The Stuart King James VI of Scotland was widely acknowledged as Elizabeth\'92s most probable successor but during her decline storms of plots and counter plots arose and subsided, including Essex\'92s aborted coup.
James continued Cecil, his \'93little beagle\'94, as his chief counselor but also immediately appointed a large number of new council members to build his own clique.
James opposed the election and demanded a conference about it in the Exchequer Chamber with the King and council.
www.constitution.org /hwheeler/constbasis.rtf   (7321 words)

  
 The English Experience
Mrs Spedding related the history of those changes with humor and a lightness of approach which belies her deep dedication to this very "well connected" house.
James Spedding, younger son of the other John whose family went to live at Mirehouse in 1802, devoted most of his working life to the study of Francis Bacon (pictured below) and to writing his biography.
John's second son, James, was something of a link man between the younger generation of literary men of the early 19th century and Wordsworth.
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 fulkehammer
Spedding is at best only partially correct in asserting Francis Bacon's authorship of the letters to the earl of Rutland.
Spedding also notes three copies among the Harleian MSS at the BL (Spedding, Letters, 2:6).
At the time of the final submission of this article, the original manuscript of which this letter is part (formerly BL Loan 23) was in the process of being sold by its current owners and it was therefore not possible to cite from it here.
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 WHITEHAVEN : on the web | Local history | Architecture   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
James became the parish church for Whitehaven in 1977 following the fire at St. Nicholas Church.
This building was constructed in 1743 by James Spedding, the son of Whitehaven's famous mining engineer Carlisle Spedding.
The entrance on Roper Street has a doorway which is decorated by an acorn finial, this is a reference to the Spedding coat of arms.
www.whitehaven.talktalk.net /history/architecture.htm   (1206 words)

  
 THE MYSTERY
There are references to Bacon in Arthur Wilson’s "History of the Reign of James I."; in "The Court of James I.," by Sir W. A.; in "Simeon D’Ewes’ Diary"; and lastly, in his "Discoveries," Ben Jonson contributes a high eulogy on Bacon’s character and attainments.
Spedding expresses the opinion that he had a distaste for his profession, and, writing of the circumstances with which he was surrounded in 1592, says: "I do not find that he was getting into practice.
(8) Spedding says, "He could at once imagine like a poet and execute like a clerk of the works"; but whatever his contemplative ends were there is nothing known to his biographers which reveals the result of his labours as clerk of the works.
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 Francis Bacon - FreeEncyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
The latter had been released from all custody in August, but was busily engaged in treasonable correspondence with James of Scotland, and was counting on the Irish army under his ally, Charles Blount[?], Baron Mountjoy (afterwards Earl of Devonshire), the new deputy.
Bacon also failed twice to secure another of Salisbury's function, the mastership of the wards; the first on Salisbury's death, when it was given to Sir George Carey[?]; the second, on the death of Carey.
It was speculated by Spedding that Bacon proposed this because in the court of king's bench there would be less danger of Coke confronting the king on questions of prerogative.
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 type_Document_Title_here
Responding to a hint from Tennyson that some of the verse in Henry VIII sounded more like John Fletcher's than William Shakespeare's, James Spedding in 1850 produced metrical data in support of a division of the play between the two dramatists.
In their phrase lengths these disputed scenes are clearly distinguishable from those agreed to be Shakespeare's but indistinguishable from those that Hoy and Spedding concur in attributing to Fletcher alone.
Spedding's Paper on the Authorship of Henry VIII', NandQ, ii (1850), 198, 401 3, and iii (1851), 33-4; Spedding's and Hickson's contributions were reprinted in Transactions of the New Shakspere Society, i (1874).
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 intro
Spedding argued that these words embrace the volume’s entire contents, and therefore leave open the question of who translated the Essays.
I have tried to identify all of Bacon’s quotations, but this has proven difficult to do, as many are not accurate quotations, because he sometimes provides paraphrases in his own words, occasionally altered his quotes to suit the context, and sometimes badly misquoted or mis-attributed, probably because he was citing from memory.
NOTE 1 James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and Douglas Denon Heath, The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord High Chancellor of England (London, 1878 - 1889).
www.philological.bham.ac.uk /essays/intro.html   (2600 words)

  
 Harvey Wheeler: The Semiosis of Francis Bacon's Scientific Empiricism
Francis Crick and James Watson were completely stymied in attempting to fit Linus Pauling's linear model of gene structure with their evidence.
Spedding cited Mersenne's opinion that the idola were the four buttresses of the Novum Organum but rectifying transducers is a better interpretation.
James Spedding's Letters and Life of Francis Bacon, 5 vols, Boston, Brown and Taggard, 1861, must also be consulted.
www.constitution.org /hwheeler/baconsemiosis.htm   (8947 words)

  
 BBC - Cumbria - Coast - Stage 5 - Trinity Gardens
Carlisle Spedding was the famous mining engineer who together with the Lowthers helped bring business and wealth to Whitehaven.
Spedding invented the Steel Mill, a device which saved the lives of many miners from gas explosions.
Sir James Lowther and Carlisle Spedding were both buried in the grounds, and the Trinity Gardens can still be used as a place of rest, with the burial of ashes, continuing as the final resting place for the people of Whitehaven.
www.bbc.co.uk /cumbria/content/articles/2005/06/21/coast05_stage5_feature.shtml   (825 words)

  
 ManxNoteBook Vol 2 no 8 pp169 et seq - Quayle family of Clycur
another James Quirk of Parville, and the third—Pownall of Pownall, in Cheshire; Christiana, who married Edward Platt; and John* (born 1725, died 1797), who became Clerk of the Rolls and the Duke of Atholl's Seneschal on his father's death.
His only child, Mark Hildesley (born 1804, died 1879), married, in 1837, Mary Jane Hamilton, eldest daughter of James Spedding, of Summergrove, Co. Cumberland, late Lieutenant and Captain in the Grenadier Guards.
James Moore dated 17th Sept., 1776, he says:—" The other day I sent you a Kegs of Puffins by Mr.
www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/manxnb/v08p169.htm   (1417 words)

  
 Douglas Denon Heath (1811-1897) of Kitlands, Coldharbour, Surrey, England.
Miss Hamilton was a granddaughter of James Heath, R.A. All his prints and pictures were left to his daughter Caroline, who married Mr.
Douglas Heath writes that the images he has carried away of my father, is one of sitting in the front of the fire, smoking and meditating, and now and then mingling in the conversation.
Spedding therefore, had to take his place, and edit as best he could, Bacon's Philosophical Works.
www.jjhc.info /heathdouglas1897.htm   (4061 words)

  
 newatlanisw
This is usually considered to be one of the first of the modern utopias and is certainly fictional, James Spedding included it in the philosophical rather than the literary and professional works.
Bacon's letters and policy memoranda to King James I show that he wished to stimulate the expansion of commerce and favored relaxing the stringent controls over monopolies.
Then, when King James packed off his court for a vacation in his native Scotland, Lord Keeper Bacon was left behind as England's regent.
www.sirbacon.org /wnewatlanis.htm   (11411 words)

  
 Farrar   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fr: James (son of James and Mary nee WALKER).
Fr: Robert (son of James and Mary nee WALKER).
Ch: John (1860); Susannah (1864); Thomas (1866); Mary Ellen (1871); James (1875); _ _ George (1876); Matthew (1879).
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 Biography - Francis Bacon
Although the actual rising might have appeared a mere outburst of frantic passion, the private examinations of the most prominent evidenced the contrary.
The accession of James I (1603) brought Bacon into greater favour.
James's third parliament chiefly occupied itself with the commercial and legal questions rising out of the proposed Union of England with Scotland, in particular, with the dispute as to the naturalization of the Post Nati (i.e.
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 Francis Bacon Research Trust - Description
Under this inscription, in small letters, is engraved ‘Simon Passæus sculpsit L. Are to be sould by John Sudbury and George Humble at the signe of the white horse in Pope’s head Ally.
Because the inscription does not include Bacon’s title of Baron Verulam, Spedding concludes that the engraving was made sometime between 4 January 1618, when he was created Lord Chancellor, and 12 July 1618, when he was created Baron Verulam.
The mystery in this portrait (which is the same as in Pass’ original) is the nature of the medallion suspended from Bacon’s neck on a ribbon, which the piece of paper in his left hand carefully conceals.
www.fbrt.org.uk /pages/shakespeare/ptiv/mask/descriptions/description-mask.html   (442 words)

  
 Leslie Stephen - The English Utilitarians In Five Webpages Page Two - Chapter Two
Another member of the academy was William Roscoe (1753-1831), whose literary taste was shown by his lives of Lorenzo de Medici and Leo X, and who distinguished himself by opposing the slave trade, then the infamy of his native town.
Allied with him in this movement were William Rathbone and James Currie (1756-1805) the biographer of Burns, a friend of Darwin and an intelligent physician.
Mrs Opie (1765-1853) was daughter of James Alderson, a physician of Norwich, and passed most of her life there.
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 Francis Bacon Correspondence Project
Printed editions of Bacon's Correspondence have appeared since the seventeenth century, but the most important is James Spedding's seven-volume edition of the Letters and Life (1861-1874).
For all its undoubted strengths, Spedding's edition is inevitably a product of its times, drawing on a relatively limited, mainly London-based selection of early printed books and manuscripts, and produced without the bibliographic, library and archival finding aids and other resources now available.
Spedding's Letters and Life was, as the title suggests, at heart a biographical exercise drawing on letters and other short pieces, such as position papers and speeches.
www.livesandletters.ac.uk /bacon/about.html   (784 words)

  
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Spedding also played on a Joan Armatrading album >>(Me Myself I?), which I only mention as she's such a favourite of many on >>the list...
Subject: Re: [AVALON] chris spedding This is news to me, I know Phil contributed to the IN YOUR MIND album but I didn't think he toured with FERRY solo.
Subject: Re: [AVALON] chris spedding At 13.50 +0100 1-07-03, terrypaulrigz8c wrote: >This is news to me, I know Phil contributed to the IN YOUR MIND album but I >didn't think he toured with FERRY solo.
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 The Cumberland Chronicle, Jan-Feb 1777
Erected last week in one of Sir James Lowther's coal pits, at Howgill near Whitehaven, "a machine of a very simple, but useful, construction" to aid in the raising of coal "one horse can raise as great a weight as two horses without this counter-balance".
Last Thu: "the greatest hunt, near Ouze Bridge, ever known in that part of the county; John Spedding, Esq.; Miles Ponsonby, Esq; and many of the neighbouring Gentlemen were on the field with 60 couple of houndgs, they ran 12 hares and killed 9 of them.- An elegant entertainment was provided at Mr.
Mon last week, about 7pm, "some malicious person or persons had set fire to one of Sir James Lowther's pit-grove-houses and shade over the pit, at Howgill Colliery, which burned violently for a short time; but by the activity of some people who observed it, was happily put a stop to.
www.pastpresented.info /cumbria/chron77jf.htm   (5660 words)

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