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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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The Essays (I-LVIII) Or, Counsels Civil and Moral of Francis, Lord Verulam ...

Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as3 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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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott. Text only, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 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 s strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty : or to seek power over others and to lose power...
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Prose Quotations from Socrates to Macaulay: With Indexes. Authors, 544 ...

Samuel Austin Allibone - 1880 - 772 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 over others, and to lose power over a man's self. LORD BACON : Essay XI., Of Great Place....
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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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Bacon's Essays, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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 5 strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty : or to seek power over others and to lose power...
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Evenings with a Reviewer: Or, Macaulay and Bacon, Volume 2

James Spedding - 1881 - 460 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."* In that sense I admit that he had resigned his independence. " — had violated the most sacred obligations...
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A Text-book on English Literature: With Copious Extracts from the Leading ...

Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 460 pages
...of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as2 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. The...
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The Moral and Historical Works of Lord Bacon: Including His Essays ...

Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 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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Francis Bacon: (Lord Verulam.): A Critical Review of His Life and Character

Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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 Promus of Formularies and Elegancies

Francis Bacon, William Shakespeare, Mrs. Henry Pott - 1883 - 698 pages
...commonwealth has a bad master.) Men in great place are thrice servants ... so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times, &c. (Ess. Of Great Place.) (Compare Hen. V. iv. 1.) II savio fa della necessity virtu. (The wise man...
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