| Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 páginas
...receive new vigour between us. My lord chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom : it being one of the essential properties... | |
| Johann Gottfried Herder - 1820 - 782 páginas
...— Lord Chancellor Bacon, says Ho well in his letters, is lately dead of a long languish illness. He died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which did a rgneto great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties of a wise man to provide... | |
| 1821 - 408 páginas
...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
| 1821 - 404 páginas
...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Ba.con is lately dead of a long languishing weakness; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
| Vicesimus Knox - 1825 - 418 páginas
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| John Randolph - 1834 - 422 páginas
...immediately on his arrival. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead, of a long and languishing weakness. He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom — it being one of the properties of a... | |
| Charles MacFarlane - 1836 - 340 páginas
...BACON, BY A CONTEMPORARY. My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness : he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 páginas
...his lordship's secretary, afterwards clerk of the king's privy-council. Howell quaintly remarks, " He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties... | |
| 1841 - 500 páginas
...Howell writes to Dr. Prichard, " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him ; which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties... | |
| 1845 - 648 páginas
...character of the great philosopher. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties of... | |
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