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
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1864 - 592 pages
...INTERFERENCE OF LEARNING WITH BUSINESS. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expefleth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no despatch or lightly... | |
| Anne Mozley - 1865 - 364 pages
...man 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."... | |
| Anne Mozley - 1865 - 374 pages
...man 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...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."... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 pages
...man of bustling toil turn staid recluse ? * See note 30. 302 CCLXX. (Continued.) " The most aetive or busy man that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many vacant times of lcisure while he expeeteth the tides and returus of business ; and then the question is bnt how those... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1870 - 350 pages
...own personal experience I can recommend to every man as a most admirable hint for him to act on. " The most active or busy man that hath been, or can be, " says Bacon, " hath no question many vacant times of leisure, " while he expecteth the tides and the... | |
| Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1873 - 594 pages
...leisure when the idle man finds none. .' He hath no leisure," says George Herbert, " who useth it not." " The most active or busy man that hath been or can be," says Bacon, " hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns... | |
| 1877 - 798 pages
...say what they have to say in plain terms, how much more eloquent they would be. — Coleridge. 13. The most active or busy man that hath been, or can...and returns of business, except he be either tedious or of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle with things that maybe better done... | |
| Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...INTERFERENCE OF LEARNING WITH BUSINESS. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure: I answer; the most active or busy man that hath been or can...expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be cither tedious and of no despatch or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may... | |
| Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pages
...leisure when the idle man finds none. " He hath no leisure," says George Herbert, " who useth it not." " The most active or busy man that hath been or can be," says Bacon, " hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns... | |
| Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 pages
...Bacon most pertinently observes " That learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can...done by others : ) and then the question is, but how these spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent ; whether in pleasures or in studies ;... | |
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