 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...life-long enemy's, who bullied him and thwarted him at every step, whenever an occasion offered. " If you had not been shortsighted in your own fortune...(as I think), you might have had more use of me." This quarrel between Bacon and Coke occurred in the Exchequer, and the latter was, as usual, the assailant,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 440 pages
...if you had not 1 Addl. MSS. 5503, fo. 36. - So Res. The MS 1ms vilh. been shortsighted in your owu fortune (as I think) you might have had more use of...this to show my friends what a brave letter I have written1 to Mr. Attorney; I have none of those humours. But that I have written is to a good end,2... | |
 | William Baptiste Scoones - 1893 - 630 pages
...fortune, as I think you might have had more use of me. But that tide is passed. I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr....Attorney ; I have none of those humours ; but that 1 have written is to a good end, that is, to the more decent carriage of my master's service, and to... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...being extremely hard to play an after-game, of reputation." — Advancement of Learning, Second Book. " And if you had not been short-sighted in your own...have had more use of me. But that tide is passed." — Letter to Sir Edward Coke. " that the riches of any occasion, or the tide of any oj>portunity can... | |
 | Claude Moore Fuess - 1914 - 136 pages
...course; so as I am more free than ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you, more than general good manners, or your particular...of me. But that tide is passed. I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney; I have none of those humours; but... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...course ; so as I am more free than ever 1 was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you Seneca inverteth it, and saith; "Plus erat, quod hie...Alexander could have given.) Observe again that speech n\y friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney ; I have none of those humours, but... | |
 | 1828 - 402 pages
...course ; so I am more free than ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you, more than general good manners, or your particular...think), you might have had more use of me. But that side is passed. I write not this to shew my friends what a brave letter I have written to Mr. Attorney,... | |
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I shall ever serve as Attorney and Solicitor together, but either to serve with another, upon your remove, or to step into some other course ; so as I am more free than ever I was from any occasion of unworthy conforming myself to you more than general... 
