 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 bankrupts with books...  The Rise of English Literary Prose - Page 543by George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 551 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1863 - 552 pages
...of Henry VII.,' he writes, ' These modern languages will, at one time or other, 'play the bankrupts with books; and since I have lost much ' time with...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 : —... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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