 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 pages
...think, that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society...cumbersome and unruly. And therefore if you would importers bonam clausulam, and send for him and satisfy him with honour here near you, if your affairs... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pages
...to the Athenians about Alcibiades, " One must not rear a lion, or, if you do, you must humour it." " To discontent him as you do and yet to put arms and...temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly " — this was not the kind of intercession that would conciliate a Tudor sovereign, or remove the... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 742 pages
...him at Court again " with a white staff in his hand as my Lord of Leicester had ; " for, said he, " to discontent him as you do and yet to put arms and power into his hand may be a kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly." l This advice however —... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 824 pages
...Leicester had ; " for, said he, " to discontent him as you do and yet to put arms and power into his hand may be a kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly." 1 This advice however — whether from i Apology. fear to provoke him further, as Camden suggests,... | |
 | Latham Davis - 1905 - 476 pages
...think, that if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society...temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly. And 1 So in original.—Abbott. therefore if you would imponere bonam clausulam, and send for him and satisfy... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 pages
...said to this affect "[ that she should bring Essex back to the Court and to attend about her] . . . " for to discontent him as you do, and yet to put arms...temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly." Now among the despatches printed in Devereux's Lives there are two from the Queen to Essex, dated,... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1928 - 324 pages
...ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people, and in the eyes of foreign ambassadors, then were he in his right element. For to discontent...cumbersome and unruly. And therefore if you would send for him, and satisfy him with honour here near you, if your affairs—which I am not acquainted... | |
 | Lytton Strachey - 1928 - 328 pages
...ornament to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people, and in the eyes of foreign ambassadors, then were he in his right element. For to discontent...cumbersome and unruly. And therefore if you would send for him, and satisfy him with honour here near you, if your affairs — which I am not acquainted... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pages
...Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society to yourself, and for an honour and adornment to your attendance and Court in the eyes of your people,...yet to put arms and power into his hands, may be a temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly . . . Which course your Lordship knoweth [Bacon... | |
 | Penry Williams - 1998 - 650 pages
...contented. 'To discontent him as you do', Bacon insisted with astonishing frankness, 'and yet to pot arms and power into his hands, may be a kind of temptation to make him prove cumbersome and unruly.'5n With Machiavellian realism. Bacon had perceived potent sources of trouble: poverty, ambition,... | |
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... if you had my Lord of Essex here with a white staff in his hand, as my Lord of Leicester had, and continued him still about you for society to yourself, and for an honour and ornament to your attendance and court, in the eyes of your people, and in... 
