The Early Life of Lord BaconGay and Bird, 1902 - 110 pages |
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The Early Life of Lord Bacon: Newly Studied (Classic Reprint) Parker Woodward No preview available - 2017 |
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Page 97 - Neither a borrower nor a lender be ; For loan oft loses both itself and friend ; And borrowing dulls the edge of husbandry. This above all, — To thine...
Page 58 - I ever bare a mind (in some middle place that I could discharge) to serve her majesty ; not as a man born under Sol, that loveth honour ; nor under Jupiter, that loveth business (for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly) ; but as a man born under an excellent sovereign, that deserveth the dedication of all men's abilities.
Page 58 - Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries; the best state of...
Page 57 - I commend myself unto your Lordship. 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 I account my ordinary course of study and meditation to be more painful than most parts of action are.
Page 58 - I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep.
Page 53 - And he, the man whom Nature self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate, With kindly counter under mimic shade, Our pleasant Willy, ah! is dead of late: With whom all joy and jolly merriment Is also deaded, and in dolour drent.
Page 79 - At length they all to merry London came, To merry London, my most kindly nurse, That to me gave this life's first native source, Though from another place I take my name, 130 An house of ancient fame. There when they came, whereas those bricky towers The which on Thames...
Page xii - For my name and memory, I leave it to men's charitable speeches, and to foreign nations, and to the next age.
Page 58 - And I do easily see that place of any reasonable countenance doth bring commandment of more wits than of a man's own ; which is the thing I greatly affect.
Page 39 - The very stay doth in this respect concern me, because I am thereby hindered to take a course of practice, which by the leave of God, if her Majesty like not of my suit, I must and will follow : not for any necessity of estate, but for my credit sake, which I know by living out of action will wear.