 For Henry the Eighth, to deal truly with your highness, I did so despair of my health this summer, as I was glad to choose some such work, as I might compasswithin days ; so far was I from entering into a work of length.  Works - Page 152by Francis Bacon - 1841Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1763 - 448 pages
...book of Advancement of Learning^ trandated into Latin, but fo inlarged, as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen of the world, as Engliih books are not. For Henry the Eighth, to deal truly with your Highnefs, I did fo defpair of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...book of Advancement of Learning, translated into Latin, but so enlarged, ai it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not." And in his presentation copy to the Duke of Buckingham, he says, — " Excellent Lord, I send your... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1827 - 482 pages
...book of Advancement of Learning, translated into Latin, but so enlarged as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen...as I was glad to choose some such work, as I might compasswithin days ; so far was I from entering into a work of length. Your highness's return hath... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...book of Advancement of Learning, translated into Latin, but so inlarged, as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live, and be a citizen...glad to choose some such work, as I might compass withm days ; so far was I from entering into a work of length. Your highness's return hath been my... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...book of Advancement of Learning, translated into Latin, but so enlarged, as it may go for a new work. It is a book, I think, will live and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not." And in his presentation copy to the Duke of Buckingham, he says, — " Excellent Lord, I send your... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...translated into Latin, but so enlarged as it may go for a new work ;" and says, " it is a book, he thinks, bonds." The third and last is, that it is a vanity to conceive, tha To Buckingham he writes, that " after his Majesty and his Highness, he was ever to have the third turn."... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 436 pages
...Dedicating the Latin version of the "Advancement of Learning" to the Prince, he observed, " It is a work I think will live, and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not" Lord Bacon saw " bankruptcy in our language," and houseless wanderers in our books. The commonwealth... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1841 - 472 pages
...Dedicating the Latin version of the " Advancement of Learning" to the prince, he observed, " It is a work I think will live, and be a citizen of the world, as English books are not." Lord Bacon saw " bankruptcy in our language," and houseless wanderers in our books. The commonwealth... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1842 - 360 pages
...Dedicating the Latin version of the " Advancement of Learning" to the Prince, he observed, "It is a work 1 think will live, and be a. citizen of the world, as English books are not." Lord Bacon saw "bankruptcy in our language," and houseless wanderers in our books. The commonwealth... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...prince, with a copy of the De Augmentis Scientiarum, in the latter part of the same year, he writes—" For Henry the Eighth, to deal truly with your highness, I did so despair of my health this summer, as I »as glad to choose some such work as I might compass within days; so far was I from entering into... | |
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