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" I have been like a piece of stuff bespoken in the shop ; and if her Majesty will not take me, it may be the selling by parcels will be more gainful. For to be, as I told you, like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth... "
The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay - Page 15
by Francis Bacon - 1838
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Writings historical. Letters

Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in n;ii nit ion ; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends...leave to trouble you with this idle letter, being butjusta et moderata querimonia : for indeed, I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off....
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The works of Francis Bacon, Volume 5

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...infinituin ; I am weary of it," as also of Wearying mjr good friends: of whom, nevertheless,;-I hope m one course or other gratefully to deserve. And so, not forgetting your business, I leave to trouble 3 r ou with this idle letter, being butjusta et moderata querimonia: for indeed, I do confess, primus...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 5

Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...nearest Hieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infmitum; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends...leave to trouble you with this idle letter, being butjusta et moderata querimonia: for indeed I do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again. I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends." («) On the 5th of November, 1596, (o) Mr. Serjeant Fleming 1595. was appointed Solicitor-General,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, and Lord ...

Francis Bacon - 1826 - 682 pages
...a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum;...trouble you with this idle letter, being but " justa et moderata querimonia : " for indeed 1 do confess, primus amor will not easily be cast off. And thus...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 12

Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...like a child following a bird, which when he is nearest flieth away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum,...trouble you with this idle letter, being but " justa et moderata querimonia." For indeed, I do confess, " primus amor," will not easily be cast off. And thus...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Letters from the ...

Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...flieth away and lig-bteth a little before, and then the child after it again, anil so in infiiiitum, I am weary of it: as also of wearying my good friends,...trouble you with this idle letter, being but " justa et moderata querimonia." For indeed, I do confess, " primus amor," will not easily be cast off. And thus...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in injinitum ; I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends...hope in one course or other gratefully to deserve. W W. Life-; p. xxxiv. From Bacon's Letter to the Earl of Devonshire. it be but an idle digression,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...which when he is nearest flieth / away and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again. I am weary of it, as also of wearying my good friends. "(») On the 5th of November, 1596, (o) Mr. Serjeant Fleming 1596. was appointed Solicitor-General,...
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Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ...

Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...a child following a bird, which, when he is nearest, flieth away, and lighteth a little before, and then the child after it again, and so in infinitum, I am weary of it.'* Disappointed, and, as he thought, disgraced, f by being thus neglected, he im* Bacon's Works, vol....
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