The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy... The Works of Francis Bacon - Página 43de Francis Bacon - 1815Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 páginas
...their persons nor in their actions nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, -which is a melancholy thing. Nay, men cannot retire when they would,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 páginas
...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose....standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse... | |
| Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 páginas
...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose...unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to Of life. • » * » We hope to find That help which nature meant in womankind 1 To man that supplemental... | |
| Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 páginas
...their actions, nor in their times.' And he adds, ' It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self.' — Essays, p. 92, ed. 1857. * This, too, was the advice of Martial : 'Principis cst virtus maxima,... | |
| Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 páginas
...as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor iii their times, . . . the rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains. (Ess. Of Gt. Plac'i.) Princes .... have no rest. (Ess. Of Empire.) As the king is the greatest power,... | |
| Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 680 páginas
...men's opinions to think themselves happy, for, if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains.' — Essays, p. 92, ed. 1857. ' Ie belief in, as Cicero uses the parent word in the following passage... | |
| 1909 - 378 páginas
...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty: or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The 1 Mutual » It» own place. • Interfere. rising unto place is laborious; and by pains men come to... | |
| Charles Coulston Gillispie - 1960 - 596 páginas
...allowed them to influence his decisions. This reasoning failed to placate, and he ended in disgrace: "The rising unto Place is laborious; and by pains...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing." Such was the lawyer-like worldliness... | |
| 1856 - 588 páginas
...may be seen in the impressive after-testimony of the illustrious Chancellor : — ' The rising into place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater...; and it is sometimes base and by indignities men com* to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall. or at least an eclipse,... | |
| Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - 1917 - 492 páginas
...freedom; neither In their persons nor In their actions, nor In their times. It Is a strange desire, to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising Into place is laborious; and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base; and by indignities... | |
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