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" Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. "
Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil - Page 19
by Francis Bacon - 1868 - 388 pages
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Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have no freedom neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self....
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Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 pages
...of the hoverei^m or state, servants of fame, uud ferrvants of business, so us they have no freedom neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others nnd to lose power over a rnan'd self. The...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...of the Sovereign or state; servants of fame; and servants of business: so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self"^...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business : so as8 they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor* in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self....
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...fastigium," &c.— Cl. R. 16 Jao. t Works, yol. v. 463. vants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self."*...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...philosophic freedom of a studious life with the servile restraints of an ambitious life, who says— "Men in great place, are thrice servants : servants...It is a strange desire to seeke power and to lose liberty ; to seeke power over others, and to lose power over a mans selfe." He was not likely to form...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self....
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The World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - 1853 - 442 pages
...of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. — Lord Bacon. GREATNESS. — The greatest man is he, who chooses the right with invincible resolution...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self....
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