 I must profess thus much, that in this day's work you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship that ever was in court. And I shall count every day lost, wherein I shall not either study your welldoing in thought,...  Letters - Page 92by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 pages
...fit time ; but I must profess thus much, that in this day's work you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship that ever was in Court." The new Lord Keeper was inaugurated, after his fashion, with unusual pomp ; with the applause, sincere... | |
 | Bertha Marian Skeat - 1897 - 676 pages
...honour conferred on him and said: „I must profess that in this day's work you are the perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship...every day lost, wherein I shall not either study your well-doing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, or perform your Service in deed".20) He was... | |
 | Mrs. F. S. Boas - 1903 - 378 pages
...fit time : but I must profess thus much, that in this day's work you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship...every day lost wherein I shall not either study your well-doing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, or perform you service in deed. Good, my Lord,... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - 1908 - 536 pages
...the chief means of his promotion. " In this day's work," he wrote, "you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship...every day lost, wherein I shall not either study your well-doing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, or perform your service in deed. Good my Lord,... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - 1908 - 512 pages
...the chief means of his promotion. "In this day's work," he wrote, " you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship...every day lost, wherein I shall not either study your well-doing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, or perform your service in deed. Good my Lord,... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1910 - 252 pages
...I fit time: hut I must profess thus much, that in this day's work you are the truest and perfectest mirror and example of firm and generous friendship...either study your well doing in thought, or do your nanie honour in speech, or perform you service in deed. Good my Lord, account and accept me, your most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...I fit time. But I must profess thus much, that in this day's work you are the truest and perfectest at good law, which gave the attaint upon a false verdict FB. BACON, CS March 7, 1616-17. Such is the nature of human delight ; ^such the nature of buman foresight... | |
 | Philip Gibbs - 1908 - 502 pages
...shall not either study your well-doing in thought, or do your name honour in speech, or perform your service in deed. Good my Lord, account and accept...and devoted friend and servant of all men living." * This acknowledgment of his influence of the new Lord Keeper was pleasing to the spirit of the Favourite.... | |
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