 Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books...  Letters - Page 254by Francis Bacon - 1850Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Henry VII. that of the Essays, being retrasflate, and made more perfefl, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not....shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity" (Bacon's Works, xii. /. 448, ed. Montagu). But there is nothing to shew that any part of the translation... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 550 pages
...letter to Mr. Matthew, about the translation of the Essays and ' History of Henry VII.,' he writes, ' These modern languages will, at one time or other,...shall give me leave, ' to recover it with posterity.' Thirty or forty years later the same distrust was expressed by Waller in the following verses : —... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...Henry VII.,' that of the fc Essays,' being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 pages
...Henry VII.,' that of the 1 Essays,' being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...Henry VII. that of the Essays, being rctraclate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one lime or other, flay the bankrupts with books : and since I have lost much time with this age, I -would... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 672 pages
...of Henry 7th, that of^the Essays being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will at one time or other play the bauk-rowtes with books : and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad as God shall... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...Henry VII.,' that of the ' Essays,' being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give... | |
 | Thomas Davies King - 1875 - 202 pages
...Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, / would be glad to recover it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 430 pages
...Henry VII. that of the Essays, being relraclate, and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some 'good pens, •which forsake me...these modern languages will, at one time or other, flay the bankrupts with books : and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 406 pages
...being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens wliich forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall give... | |
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