Excerpt from The Works of Francis Bacon, Vol. 7: Lord Chancellor of England In the life of Lord Bacon, by Dr. Rawley, his lordship's first and last chaplain, as he always proudly entitles himself, there is the following pas sage This lord was religious: for though the world be apt to suspect and prejudge great wits and poli tics to have somewhat of the Atheist, yet he was. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.