 | 1821 - 404 pages
...year 1560. His health was always delicate. In the year 1591, in a letter to Lord Burleigh, he says : " I wax now somewhat ancient : one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass." In the year 1617, when he was fifty-seven years of age, the great seals were offered to him. Unmindful... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...year 1560. His health was always delicate. In the year 1591, in a letter to Lord Burleigh, he says : " I wax now somewhat ancient : one 'and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass." i ... * In the year 1617, when he was fifty-seven years of age, the great seals were offered to him.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...correspondence unto me ami my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. 1 wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is...hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed, and 1 do not fear that action shall impair it . because 1 account my ordinary course of study and meditation... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 682 pages
...correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand iirthe hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed ; and I do not fear that action shall impair... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years...do not fear that action shall impair it : because 1 account my ordinary course of study and meditation to be more painful than most parts of action are.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years...do not fear that action shall impair it : because 1 account my ordinary course of study and meditation to be more painful than most parts of action are.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...life. ' I wax now somewhat aoneat: onewaHoVthirty years is a great deal of sand in the hgur-ffUss. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed, and I do...ordinary course of study and meditation to be more painftil than most parts of action are. * * * * iV-iin, the mealiness of my estate doth somewhat tnovo... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship. 1 wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is...of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, 1 find confirmed, and 1 do not fear that action shall impair it ; because 1 account my ordinary course... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...estate can breed in a man, do I " commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat an" cient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. " Aly health, I thank God, I find confirmed ; and I do not fear that " action shall impair it ; because... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 884 pages
...ancient: onc-and-thirty years is a groat deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, 1 thank Hod, 1 find confirmed, and I do not fear that action shall impair it: because I account my ordinal^ course of study and meditation tobe more pniuful than most parts of action are. » * * •... | |
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I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a .great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed; and I do not fear that action shall impair it : because 1 account my ordinary course of study and meditation to be... 
