 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 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...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing In the discharge of thy place set before thee the best examples ; for imitc tion is a globe of precepts... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 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...by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is'slippery, and the regress is either a downfal, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...greater pains, and it is sometimes hue; and hy indignities men come to dignities. The standi •'.:,l is slippery, and the regress is either a downfal,...or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing In the disciiarge.of thy place set hefore thee the.hest examples; for unitation is a glohe of precepts;... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...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, cur... | |
 | Bengal council of educ - 1848 - 394 pages
...is as the Sunbeams, that beat hotter upon a bank, or steep rising ground, than upon a flat." 24. " The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing." 25. " As in nature, things move violently... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...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...come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regrpss is either a downfall 01 at le.ist an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing; ship, all to a man... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 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...others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising untu place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains: and it is sometimes base ; and by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...no freedom, -neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor f in their times. It is a strange # # Ü others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 368 pages
...to seek power over others nnd to lose power over a rnan'd self. The rising unto place is laUirioua, and by pains men come, to greater pains, and it is sometimes hast- and hy indignities men i-ome to dignities. The standing is slippery, anil the repress is cither... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 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...is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities4. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfal, or at least an eclipse,... | |
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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... 
