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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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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 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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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 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 ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 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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Lives of lord Lyndhurst and lord Brougham, Volume 1

John Campbell (1st baron.) - 1857 - 426 pages
...the Soveieign 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. "k...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 pages
...servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as l they have no freedom, neither2 in their persons, nor2 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, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...seruants of the Soueraigne, or state ; seruants of fame, and seruants of businesse. So as they haue no freedome, neither in their persons, nor in their...actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to secke power, and to lose liberty: or to seeke power ouer others, and to lose power ouer a mans sclfe....
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 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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Law and Lawyers: a Sketch Book of Legal Biography, Gossip, and Anecdote

Archer Polson - 1858 - 212 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." The duties which devolve on those to whom are confided the reinsofjustice.if honourable, are severe....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 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...soveraigne or state ; servants of fame; and servants of businesae. So as they have no freedome, neither in their persons; nor in their actions; nor In their...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1861 - 630 pages
...the sovereign or State, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as1 they have no fi eedom, 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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