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" You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love: which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out... "
The Essays of Lord Bacon - Page 38
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 240 pages
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The Functions and Disorders of the Reproductive Organs in Childhood, Youth ...

William Acton - 1875 - 316 pages
...man, not yet ; an old man, not at all ;" and with the still wiser Englishman,3 who thus writes :— \' You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy...spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion By how much the more ought men to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself....
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The functions and disorders of the reproductive organs in youth, in adult ...

William Acton - 1875 - 316 pages
...man, not yet ; an old man, not at all ;" and with the still wiser Englishman,3 who thus writes : — " You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy...spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion By how much the more ought men to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself....
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The Functions and disorders of the reproductive organs in childhood, youth ...

William Acton - 1875 - 398 pages
...wiser Englishman,8 who thus writes: — "You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy persona (whereof the memory remaineth, either ancient or recent)...spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion By how much the more ought men to beware of this passion, which loseth not only other things, but itself....
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...be none of the passions that have been noted to fascinate or bewitch but love and envy. LORD BACON. You may observe that amongst all the great and worthy...there is not one that hath been transported to the mail degree of love, — which shows that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion....
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...much mischief, sometimes like a Siren, sometimes like a Fury. You may observe that amongst all the 5 great and worthy persons (whereof the memory remaineth,...been transported to the mad degree of love : which shews that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion. You must except, nevertheless,...
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The Journal of Philology, Volume 6

William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1876 - 342 pages
...is. Bacon observes that 'amongst all the great and •worthy persons whereof the memory remaineth, there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love*. True it is that its usual victim is a ' curled Anthony', not a baldpated Julius; but for the lyric...
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The Journal of Philology, Volume 6

William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1876 - 324 pages
...Propertius in his most peculiar mood, the mood indeed which made him the poet he is. Bacon observes that 'amongst all the great and worthy persons whereof the memory remaineth, there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love'. True it is that its usual victim...
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The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...then of tragedies ; but in life it doth much mischief, sometimes like a siren, sometimes like a fury. You may observe, that amongst all the great and worthy...passion. You must except nevertheless Marcus Antonius the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius the decemvir and lawgiver ; whereof the former...
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The Dublin University Magazine: A Literary and Political Journal, Volume 37

1851 - 1006 pages
...and that " among all the great and worthy per. sons whereof the memory remaineth, ancient or modern, there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love." THE WEITER And thereby he shews himself no better informed on the literature than on the sensibilities...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Literary and religious works

Francis Bacon - 1877 - 1014 pages
...ancient or recent,) there is not one that hath been transported to the mad degree of love : which shews that great spirits and great business do keep out this weak passion. You most except nevertheless Marcus Antonius, the half partner of the empire of Rome, and Appius Claudius,...
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