 | Hubert Ashton Holden - 1876 - 592 pages
...INTERFERENCE OF LEARNING WITH BUSINESS. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure: I answer; the most active or busy man that hath been...expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be cither tedious and of no despatch or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may... | |
 | Samuel Smiles - 1876 - 408 pages
...leisure when the idle man finds none. " He hath no leisure," says George Herbert, " who useth it not." " The most active or busy man that hath been or can be," says Bacon, " hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...that breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure: I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath...of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others... | |
 | Apophthegmata - 1877 - 560 pages
...composition. Lord Bacon most pertinently observes " That learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been...of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others... | |
 | 1877 - 790 pages
...say what they have to say in plain terms, how much more eloquent they would be. — Coleridge. 13. The most active or busy man that hath been, or can...and returns of business, except he be either tedious or of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle with things that may be better done... | |
 | Desiderius Erasmus - 1877 - 554 pages
...composition. Lord Bacon most pertinently observes " That learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been...leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of busjness (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...that breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure, I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business, and then the question is but how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent, whether... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer; the most active or busy man that hath been...of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others):... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...to tread opposite to the present world. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath...of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 pages
...that breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure, I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been...(no question) many vacant times of leisure, while he expectcth the tides and returns of business, and then the question is but how those spaces and times... | |
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And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious... 
