Famous quotes containing the words bacon and/or met:
“It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man’s judgement.”
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626)
“Whenever he met a great man he grovelled before him, and my-lorded him as only a free-born Briton can do.”
—William Makepeace Thackeray (1811–1863)