 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 618 pages
...than, so far as we conceive, he ever deserved at your or any man's hands. For you say, that you were afraid, that the height of his fortune might make him too secure ; and so, as a looker-on, you might sometime see more than a gamester. Now we know not how to interpret this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1827 - 526 pages
...than, so far as we conceive, he ever deserved at your or any man's hands. For you say, that you were afraid, that the height of his fortune might make him too secure ; and so, as a looker-on, you might sometime see more than a gamester. Now we know not how to interpret this... | |
 | Cuthbert William Johnson - 1837 - 516 pages
...inconvenient, rather than the thing itself. " Now for the manner of my affection to my Lord of Buckingham. — But yet I was afraid that the height of his fortune...might make him too secure, and as the proverb is, a looker on sometimes seeth more than a gamester. " For my opposition to this business, which, it seemeth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 864 pages
...vouchsafed to my counsels ; but in truth, and it please your Majesty, without any grain of disesteem for rms of greatness towards you, who are less than little ; less witnessed), that the earl hath lately performed towards me, in palliating some errors of mine ; it... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 pages
...difficulty was to explain away the disparaging expressions he had so unguardedly used about Buckingham. " I know him to be naturally a wise man, of a sound...height of his fortune might make him too secure, and, ns the proverb is, a looker on seeth more than a gamester." With respect to his treatment of Sir Edward... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 522 pages
...than (so far as we conceive) he ever deserved at your or any man's hands ; for you say, that you were afraid that the height of his fortune might make him too secure; and so, as a looker-on, you might sometimes see more than a gamester. Now we know not how to interpret... | |
 | James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps - 1846 - 520 pages
...than (so far as we conceive) he ever deserved at your or any man's hands ; for you say, that you were afraid that the height of his fortune might make him too secure ; and so, as a looker-on, you might sometimes see more than a gamester. Now we know not how to interpret... | |
 | John Lingard - 1847 - 426 pages
...naturally a wise " man. of a sound and staid wit ; and again 1 know he hath the best tutor " in Europe. Yet I was afraid that the height of his fortune might...secure : and. as the proverb is, a looker-on sometimes sees more " than the gamester." Bacon's works, vi. 158. The king's answer may be seen, p. 162. Buckingham... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...difficulty was to explain away the disparaging expressions lie had so unguardedly used about Buckingham. " I know him to be naturally a wise man, of a sound...might make him too secure, and, as the proverb is, a looker on seeth more than a gamester!' With respect to his treatment of Sir Edward Coke, he says, "... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...difficulty was to explain away the disparaging expressions he had so unguardedly used about Buckingham. " I know him to be naturally a wise man, of a sound...might make him too secure, and, as the proverb is, a looker on seeth more than a gamester." With respect to his treatment of Sir Edward Coke, he says, "I... | |
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I ever said unto your Majesty. And again, I know he hath the best tutor in Europe. But yet I was afraid that the height of his fortune might make him too secure, and, as the proverb is, a looker on seeth more than a gamester. 
