 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
 | Ray Freeman Goudey - 1928 - 168 pages
...the most probable author, are many passages bringing forth this truth. In his own letters he wrote: And since I have lost much time with this age, I would...shall give me leave, To recover it with posterity. Another mysterious individual of the seventeenth century was Franciscus Mercurius Van Helmont, said... | |
 | Hermann Martin Flasdieck - 1928 - 264 pages
...hängt ein anderer wichtiger Grund zusammen. 1623 schreibt Bacon an seinen Freund Toby M a 1 1 hew : these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with books4). In der Epistle Dedicatorie von 1625 heißt es ergänzend: For I doe conceiue, that the Latine... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...too private a tongue, excluding many readers. "These modern languages," Bacon had told Tobie Matthew, "will at one time or other play the bankrupts with...since I have lost much time with this age, I would be as glad God shall give me leave to recover it with posterity." Sending to Prince Charles a Latin version... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 470 pages
...p. Ixxxvi. regard to the Essayes. Writing of the Latin translation to Matthew in 1623, he remarks, 'since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad as God shall give leave to recover it with posterity' (xiv. 429), and, in the dedicatory epistle of 25, 'the Latine Volume... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...the Sevent'i, that of the Easays, being retractate, and made more perfect, well translated intj Latin by the help of some good pens, which forsake me not....shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." In the year 1627, this history was published jn French.1 In \ (<•!'>, there was a new edition in... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 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 : —... | |
 | Frederick Alexander Kirkpatrick - 1904 - 726 pages
...For these modern languages," he wrote to a friend, "will at one time or another play the bank-rowte with books, and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad if God would give me leave to recover it with posterity1." Ratke, on the contrary, shows full confidence... | |
 | John William Adamson - 1905 - 320 pages
...For these modern languages," he wrote to a friend, "will at one time or another play the bank-rowte with books, and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad if God would give me leave to recover it with posterity1." Ratke, on the contrary, shows full confidence... | |
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