 MY LORD, WITH as much confidence as mine own honest * Hawley'i Kcsuscitalio. f Ibid. J Ibid. and faithful devotion unto your service, and your honourable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your lordship....  Letters - Page 2by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 260 pages
...service and vow honourable correspondeuce unto mo and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I com* mend 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,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...plain student. "To MY LORD TREASURER BURGHLEY "My LORD, " With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service, and your...of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, is confirmed ; and I do not fear that action shall impair it, because I account my ordinary course... | |
 | William Henry Burr - 1886 - 110 pages
...a letter written in 1592 by Bacon to his uncle, Lord Treasurer Burleigh, in which he says : " I wax somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass." At the age of 31 he thinks himself "somewhat ancient ;" two years earlier he apprehends that forty... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...of Francis Bacon in this respect. John Campbell says: He writes to his uncle Burleigh in 1591: I am now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. ' And again he says, about the same time: I would be sorry she [the Queen] should estrange in my last... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 624 pages
...WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD—With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed;... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 628 pages
...WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 600 pages
...excellent power and earneflnefs. MI ord A A7^^ as Puc^ confidence, as mine own honest, and faithfull ' VV Devotion unto your Service, and your honourable Correspondence...in a Man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I waxe now somewhat ancient; One and thirty yeares, is a great deal of sand, in the Houre-glasse. My... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1896 - 276 pages
...as far as possible from vain boastfulness. " MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable...in a man, do 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,... | |
 | Parker Woodward - 1902 - 144 pages
...Supplement to Rawley's " Resuscitatio." It begins : " My Lord, with as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service, and your...in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. / wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass. My health,... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...twilight of such day As after sunset fadeth in the west, Which by and by black night doth OLD AGE " I wax now somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass." — Letter to BurgUey (1592). " Her Majesty's being begun in my first years, I would be... | |
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