...the courtiers to maintain position, to distinguish themselves in order to keep from being supplanted. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains. . . . The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which...

...is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty', Bacon wrote in his essay 'Of Great Place': 'or to seek power over others and to lose power over...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.' From Bacon we expect such hard-won...

...beholden to Kings, for he doth most for them, and they do ordinarily least for him. 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. Certainly great Persons had need to borrow other Mens Opinion to think themselves happy, for if they...

...May 1578, Lambeth MSS, 611, Fos. 351-60. INTERLUDE: GOVERNMENT IN IRELAND, 1536-1579 '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. (Francis Bacon) (0 In the autumn of 1578 a watershed in the course of Tudor attempts to govern Ireland...

...nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty:0 or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place0 is laborious; and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base;0 and by indignities0...

...is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty', Bacon wrote in his essay 'Of Great Place': 'or to seek power over others and to lose power over...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.' From Bacon we expect such hard-won...

...lose liberty; or to seek power over others,and to lose power over a man's self. The rising untoplace is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains;...dignities. The standing is slippery; and the regress as either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non...

...passion and desire for influence before one can become enlightened. F. Bacon said "It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty or to seek power over others and to loose power over a mans self" F. Bacon was convicted of taking bribes in 1621 AD and banished form...

...Alexander the Great having conquered the world at an age when he had done nothing. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek...sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. Francis Bacon, Essays, 1625 Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference,...

...vitamin for friendship is Bl (Be one). Francis Bacon, the sixteenth century English philosopher said: "The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains and by indignities men come to dignities." While I cannot lay claims to any great achievements, it would...