 | 1874 - 864 pages
...¡tlicontemplatlon unto voluntary poverty ; b»t this I -will do ; I will sell the inherit*Me that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain : U'. shall be executed by deputy and so рте over all care of service, and become *>шв sorry book-maker.... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pages
...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty. But this I will do. I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioner_ in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep. " This which I have written unto your Lordship... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 402 pages
...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do j I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and BO give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...with contemplation into voluntary poverty ; but this I will do — I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which lies so deep." With the lofty assurance of genius — that self-knowledge and self-reliance which breathe... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 252 pages
...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty, tut this I will do — I will sell the inheritance I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioner in that mine of truth, which (he said) lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your Lordship... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 540 pages
...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty. But this I will do. I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioner1 in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep. " This which I have written unto your Lordship... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1886 - 432 pages
...himself with contemplation to voluntary poverty ; but this I will do : I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...pioneer in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep."1 Not far from this time were written the speeches in Praise of the Queen and in Praise of Knowledge,... | |
 | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - 1887 - 308 pages
...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty; but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth that lies so deep I do not think that the ordinary practice of the law, not serving the queen in place,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1887 - 482 pages
...would be quite in keeping with what Bacon said in his letter to Burleigh, when he thought of becoming " some sorry bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which (he [Anaxagoras] said) lay so deep." (Ante, p. 86.) Nor is there anything in the context that would intimate... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...did, who reduced himself to voluntary poverty ; but this I will do : I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue,...in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep." In a later address to the "Atlas of this Commonwealth," 1595, Bacon, referring to himself as "a tired... | |
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I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. 
