 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 - Page 41by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 240 pagesFull view - About this book
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...merely local. They are great, because their associates are little. JOHNSON. GEEAT PLACE. 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 men's opinions to think themselves happy ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power [2] and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others,...and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto [3] power is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains : and it is sometimes base, and by indignities... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 786 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 cur... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1868 - 368 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...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing ; ' cum non sia qui fueris non «sse cur... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 694 pages
...have no freedom, neither2 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...to greater pains : and it is sometimes base and by indignities3 men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...Power over a Mans Selfe. The Rising unto 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 Eclipse, which is a Melancholy Thing. Cum nan sis,... | |
 | 1872 - 556 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 either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing... | |
 | sir William Smith - 1873 - 280 pages
...praise o man's self [se ipsum laudare] cannot be decent." (Essays, Praise.) " It is a strange desire to seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self." (Ib. Of Great Pomr.) It is not included by Johnson among the compounds of self, but occurs in writers... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 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 cur... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...their actions, nor in their times. 4 It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty, or 5 to seek power over others, and to lose power over...laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains ; 6 and it is sometimes base, and by indignities 7 men come to dignities. The standing is slippery,... | |
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