 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur veils vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even 15 in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...whether Bacon is chanting a quanta palimur or expressing his real feelings in Essay xi. 11. 5-20, ' Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy.' For Bacon's quanta patimur, as chanted in his correspondence, see Introduction, p. xxi. The allusion may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...Privateness, sb. Privacy : p. 10, 1. 29 ; p. 15, 1. 16, &c. Comp. Essay xi. p. 39 : ' Nay, retire men cannot, when they would ; neither will they, when it were reason : but are impatient of privatenesse, even in age, and sicknesse, which require the shadow.' Probably, adv. With probability,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason ; 6 but are impatient 7 of privateness 8 even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will be still 9 sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. haps, they find the contrary... | |
 | Moffatt and Paige - 1879 - 506 pages
...Go and set forth these things, while our army marches up and down on these level green fields. (4) " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's...think themselves happy. For if they judge by their own feelings, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur veils vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even 15 in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason ;6 but are impatient7 of privateness3 even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still9 sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly great persons... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...and to lose power over a man's self. LORD BACON : Essay XI., Of Great Place. Nay, retire men cannot for her comfort, thnt the beauties, generally speaking,...An apparent desire of admiration, a reflection upon lhat will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. LORD BACON... | |
 | 1880 - 594 pages
...submission. Go and set forth these things, while our army marches up and down on these level green fields. " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's...think themselves happy. For if they judge by their own feelings, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 486 pages
...gravest of national maladies, were eating their way fast and deep into the hearts of the people.1 " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy."* So said a famous student who, to his cost, was likewise a minister of state ; and the truth of the... | |
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Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will' be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they... 
