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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 Essays Or Counsels Civil and Moral. With the Wisdom of the Ancients ...

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 pages
...and to lofe Liberty ; or to feek Power over others, and to lofe Power over a Man's Self. The Rifing unto Place is laborious ; and by Pains Men come to greater Pains ; and it is fometimes bafe ; and by Indignities Men come to Dignities. The Standing is flippery, and the Regrefs...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1858 - 620 pages
...have no freedom, neither3 in their persons, nor3 in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or to seek...indignities' men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, aud the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : ' Cum non...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 792 pages
...power ouer a mans sclfe. The rising vnto place is laborious, and by paines men come to greater paines: and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come...to dignities : the standing is slippery ; and the regresse is either a downefall, or at least an Ecclipse ; which is a malancholy thing. Nay, retire,...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...power ouer a mans selfe. The rising vnto place is laborious, and by paines men come to greater paines: and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come...to dignities : the standing is slippery ; and the régresse is either a downefall, or at least an Ecclipse ; which is a malancholy thing. Nay, retire,...
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The Life and Correspondence of Francis Bacon

J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 pages
...advancing, but when he has attained the summit of his ambition he will write : — " 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." This is place in contemplation —...
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Selections from Various Sources

Lydia Howard Sigourney - 1863 - 254 pages
...actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty; or to seek power above others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising...pains, and it is sometimes base, and by indignities, that men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...no freedom, neither 2 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...pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities 3 men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least...
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Literary and professional works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...power ouer a mans selfe. The rising vnto place is laborious, and by paines men come to greater paines : and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come...to dignities : the standing is slippery ; and the regresse is either a downefall, or at least an Ecolipse; which is a melancholy thing. Nay, retire,...
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Gems of Literature, Elegant, Rare, and Suggestive ...

Gems - 1866 - 166 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...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Nay, men cannot retire when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of...
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The literary reader: prose authors, with biogr. notices &c. by H.G. Robinson

Hugh George Robinson - 1867 - 458 pages
...nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power and to lose liberty; to seek power over others, and to lose power over...base; and by indignities men come to dignities."— Essay, Of Great Place. 12. Strike him in tfte face like dors.— A dor is a dor-beetle. This insect,...
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