 MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their timea. It is a strange desire to seek power...  The Saturday Magazine - Page 2291844Full view - About this book
 | Ambrose Serle - 1801 - 392 pages
...Bacon, the chancellor, declares that "men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovreign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, either in their persons, in their actions, or in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants; servants of the...their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their tiroes. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lo«e liberty ; or to seek power over others, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Love maketh mankind; friendly Love perfecteth it ; but wanton Love corrupteth and embaseth it. IVlEN in Great Place are thrice servants: servants of the...and servants of business. So as they have no freedom either in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...Love maketh mankind; friendly Love perfectetl! it ; but wanton Love corrupteth and embaseth it. 1V1.EN in Great Place are thrice servants : servants of the...and servants of business. So as they have no freedom either in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...Unmindful of his own words : " That men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, and lose power over themselves." Unmindful... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...Unmindful of his own words : " That men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, and lose power over themselves," •... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...corrupteth and embaseth it. XL OF GREAT PLACE. Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants w the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants...lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to tae power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...utility consisted not in action but in contemplation, (a) as he had published his opinion that " men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times," (b) it is probable that he was urged to this and to every other step on the road to aggrandizement,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...soveraigne or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of businesse. So " as they have no freedome, neither in their persons ; nor in their "actions; nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seeke power " and to lose liberty ; to seeke power over others, and to lose " power over a mans selfe."... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1828 - 510 pages
...Unmindful of his own words, " Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, and lose power over themselves."(rf)... | |
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