...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...

...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...

...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 Power 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...

...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...

...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...

...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. 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. (1625/1965,70) Bacon did not distinguish between the two kinds of power. Like most people, he probably...

...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 power over others and to lose...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...