 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and tike regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: ''Cum non sis qui fueris, non esee cur velis vivere."* Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...to greater pains : and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 474 pages
...to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall,...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere."2 Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall,...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non essc cur veils vivere." 2 Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 pages
...; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The .'landing is slippery.and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Nay, men cannot retire when Hiey would, neither will they when it were reason,» but are impatient... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...the difficulty of maintaining one's position in office : " The standing is slippery and the egress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing ; " but it says nothing of the misery of only being allowed to stand at the cost of having first stooped... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...to greater pains ; and it is aomptim<-8 base: and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall,...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non ^ c sis quifueris, non ease cur velis vivere: [When a man feels that he is no longer what he... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...to greater pains, and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : dim non sis qui fiieris, non esse cur veils vivere. Nay, retire men OF GREAT PLACE. 79 cannot when... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities » men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall,...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: " Cum non sis gui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere." f Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 pages
...to greater pains, and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : Cum non sis qui fneris, non esse cur veils vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither... | |
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The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery; and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy... 
