 He affecteth popularity by gracing such as he hath heard to be popular, and not by any fashions of his own. He is thought somewhat general in his favours ; and his virtue of access is rather, because he is much abroad and in press, than that he giveth...  Letters - Page 30by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 448 pages
...hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms and nations, faster perhaps than policy will conveniently i3 bear. I told your Lordship once before, that (methought)...the time past than of the time to come. But it is early yet to ground any settled opinion. For the particularities I refer to conference, having in these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 444 pages
...hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms and nations, faster perhaps than policy will conveniently13 bear. I told your Lordship once before, that (methought)...the time past than of the time to come. But it is early yet to ground any settled opinion. For the particularities I refer to conference, having in these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 pages
...hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms and nations, faster perhaps than policy will conveniently13 bear. I told your Lordship once before, that (methought)...the time past than of the time to come. But it is early yet to ground any settled opinion. For the particularities I refer to conference, having in these... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1869 - 382 pages
...detected in him the characteristic defect of all the Stuarts. " Methought," he wrote to a friend, " his Majesty rather asked counsel of the time past than of the time to come." Yet he paid assiduous court to James, and especially won his favor by advocating in Parliameut the... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 824 pages
...H speech. 18 about serious things, om. and nations, faster perhaps than policy will conveniently 1 bear. I told your Lordship once before, that (methought)...the time past than of the time to come. But it is early yet to ground any settled opinion. For the particularities I refer to conference, having in these... | |
 | 1879 - 634 pages
...fine a tool. Bacon showed his usual insight when he wrote of James, alter a first interview, that ' his Majesty rather asked counsel of the time past ' than of the time to come.' Of the time present he felt indeed the stress, but without divining the purport. The House of Commons... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...abroad and in fears than that he giveth easy audience. He hasteneth to a mixture of both kingdoms faster than policy will well bear. I told your lordship once...but it is yet early to ground any settled opinion." Cecil and Bacon were now allies if not friends, and at the instigation of the former, Bacon received,... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1886 - 382 pages
...detected in him the characteristic defect of all the Stuarts. " Methought," he wrote to a friend, " his Majesty rather asked counsel of the time past than of the time to come." - Yet he paid assiduous court to James, and especially won his favor by advocating in Parliament the... | |
 | 1868 - 860 pages
...once detected in him the characteristic defect of all the Stuarts. " Methought," he wrote to a friend, "his Majesty rather asked counsel of the time past than of the time to come." To James, however, he paid assiduous court, and especially won his favor by advocating in Parliament... | |
 | John Macleod - 2001 - 430 pages
...history, the classics, and in general the study of antiquities. He had not the least interest in science. 'His Majesty rather asked counsel of the time past than of the time to come,' noted Francis Bacon. James retreated from Bacon's company. It was much more fun to act as sage and... | |
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