 And that learning should take up too much time or leisure ; I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can be, hath (no question) many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious...  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ... - Page 112by Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...of business (except he be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be 5 Home people are so... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of bu siness, (except ho be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; ur and crowner of the monarch at Bosworth Field, —...best with kings. Next, the sense of his power; for despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...of business, (except he be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...while he expefteth the tides and returns of bufinefs (except he be either tedious and of no difpatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things...that may be better done by others :) and then the queftion is, but how thofe fpaces and times of leifure mall be filled and fpent ; whether in pleafures... | |
 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1852 - 380 pages
...[Classical Tripos, 1846.] 137. AND that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...of business (except he be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others:)... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...indefatigable, if it be towards any business that can detain their minds. The most active or busy men that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business. And then the question is, but how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled ^ and spent; whether... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : 1 answer ; fable, that the rest of the gods having conspired despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others)... | |
 | John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...bustling toil turn staid recluse ? * See note F, at the end. CXX/VTII. o ii c I usio tt. (Continued.) " The most active or busy man that hath been or can...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business; and then the question is but how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent, whether... | |
 | 1864 - 350 pages
...can be always busy without being slavishly busy. " The most active or busy man," Bacon tells us, " that hath been or can be, hath no question many vacant...of business, except he be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle with things that might be better done by others."... | |
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