 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
 | Modern Language Association of America - 1924 - 220 pages
...domynacyon of the mone, whiche is never stedfaste but ever waverynge." Francis Bacon was certain that "these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books," and labored with much pains that his own writings should be "well translated into Latin," "the universal... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 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....shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." The Italian translation had been entitled " Saggi Morali," — Moral Saws. To this and to the proposed... | |
 | Alfred Waites - 1890 - 32 pages
...books" ; and he had his works carefully translated into Latin, "the universal language," because "as I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad,...shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." The writer of the "Brief," says that the author of the Plays was "a jurist." " His fondness for legal... | |
 | Thomas R. Lounsbury - 1891 - 528 pages
...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....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 - 1891 - 466 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... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 446 pages
...most set to have those works which I had formerly published . . . well translated into Latin. . . . For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books." This idea of the instability of the modern, compared with the ancient, languages grew out of the revival... | |
 | Oliver Farrar Emerson - 1894 - 440 pages
...most set to have those works which I had formerly published . . . well translated into Latin. . . . For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books." This idea V of the instability of the modern, compared with the ancient, languages grew out of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1896 - 426 pages
...time or other, play the bankrnpts with books : and since I have lost mnch time with this age, I wonld be glad, as God shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity'' (Bacon's Wotks, xii. /. 448, ed. Montagn). Bnt there is nothing to shew that any part of the translation... | |
 | Hamilton Scientific Association - 1898 - 682 pages
...translated into that tongue, fearing as he said : " these modern languages will at one time or another play the bankrupts with books, and since I have lost...shall give me leave to recover it with posterity." Montaigne had like premonition over his famous essays. Two hundred years after Chaucer's day he said... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 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....shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." The Italian translation had been entitled " Saggi Morali," — Moral Saws. To this and to the proposed... | |
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