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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. It is a strange desire to seek power... "
The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ... - Page 41
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 234 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...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 tae power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains...
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Moral, Economical, and Political Essays

Francis Bacon - 1833 - 228 pages
...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...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...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...indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slipper)-, and the regress is cither a downfal, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing....
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...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...over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious j and by pains men come to greater pains : and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to...
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
...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. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they...
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Horae Solitariae: Or, Essays Upon Some Remarkable Names and Titles of Jesus ...

Ambrose Serle - 1842 - 730 pages
...they have no freedom, either in their persont, in their actions, or in their timti. It is a strange desire to seek power, and to lose liberty : or to seek power over other$, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising into place is laborious ; and by pains men...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 24

1844 - 276 pages
...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...others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising into place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by...
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Famous Men of Modern Times, Volume 1

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 336 pages
...is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude." " It is a strange desire to seek power, and lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over one's self." " Of all kind of men, God is the least beholden unto kings ; for he doth most for them,...
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Lives of Celebrated American Indians

Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1844 - 680 pages
...is temperance ; the virtue of adversity is fortitude." " It is a strange desire to seek power, and lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose power over one's self." " Of all kind of men, God is the least beholden unto kings ; for he doth most for them,...
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The Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 672 pages
...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...over others and to lose power over a man's self." * It may as well be said that he despised money, because in his writings he calls riches "the baggage...
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