 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...  Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works - Page 29by Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 504 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...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...; not as a man born under Sol, that loveth honour ; norunder Jupiter, thatlovethbusiness,for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly: but 3i... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...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...; not as a man born under Sol, that loveth honour; norunder Jupiter, thatloveth business.for the contemplative planet carrieth me away wholly: but 5 as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...; 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...more painful than most parts of ' action are. I ever bear a mind, in some middle place that I ' could discharge, to serve her Majesty ; not as a man born... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...letter to Lord Burleigh in the year 1592, he say*, " My health, I thank God, I find confirmed ; and 1 do not fear that action shall impair it : because...more painful than most parts of action are. I ever bear a mind, in some middle place that I could discharge, to serve her majesty ; not as a man born... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 682 pages
...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...meditation to be more painful than most parts of action arc. I ever bare a mind, in some middle place that I could discharge, to serve her majesty ; not as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...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...more painful than most parts of action are. I ever bear a mind, in some middle place that I could discharge, to serve her majesty; not as a man born under... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...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 more painful than most parts of action are.... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...aoneat: onewaHoVthirty years is a great deal of sand in the hgur-ffUss. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed, and I do not fear that action shall impair...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 - 1825 - 538 pages
...; 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...more painful than most parts of ' action are. I ever bear a mind, in some middle place that I ' could discharge, to serve her Majesty ; not as a man born... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...Lord Burleigh in the year 1592, he says, " My health, I thank God, I find confirmed ; and I do noi fear that action shall impair it : because I account...more painful than most parts of action are. I ever bear a mind, in some middle place that I could discharge, to serve her majesty ; not as a man born... | |
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