 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...  Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately - Page 114by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Edward Aloysius Pace, Thomas Edward Shields - Catholic schools - 1917 - 492 pages
...freedom; neither In their persons nor In their actions, nor In their times. It Is a strange desire, to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising Into place is laborious; and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base; and by indignities... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...by the seeker after "Great Place". The essay so entitled, "Of Great Place", contains the sentence, "It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty", but the bulk of the essay is practical advice to those who occupy great place, concluding with the... | |
 | Jonathan Dollimore, Alan Sinfield - Literary Collections - 1983 - 406 pages
...269 charnel: charnel house, where the bones of the dead were piled. 272-3 This . . . pain: cf. Bacon: "The rising unto place is laborious and by pains men come to greater pains' ('Of Great Place' in Essays) also The Duchess ofMalfl II.v.60-2 and Textual note to V.vi.249-52;rrade:... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Reference - 1989 - 414 pages
...poet What parish priest would not like to be Pope? Voltaire (1694-1778) French philosopher, writer It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty. Francis Bacon (1561-1626) English philosopher, essayist Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified... | |
 | Will Durant - Biography & Autobiography - 1965 - 736 pages
...so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their action, nor in their time. . . . The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men...pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...to know the ignominy of asking and being refused. "The rising unto place," he would one day write, "is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an... | |
 | Austin L. Sorenson - History - 1994 - 268 pages
..."the highest power may be lost by misrule." Francis Bacon wrote: "It is a strange desire to seek such power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self." It is possible for a nation to be rich in possessions but poor in spirit. Jesus Christ warned, "Take... | |
 | Robert Andrews - Language Arts & Disciplines - 1997 - 666 pages
...Independent on Sunday (London, Aprils, 1992). Reply when asked how he had survived so long in power. 3 It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose...over others, and to lose power over a man's self. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Essays, "Of Great Place" (1597-1625).... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 318 pages
...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...pains; and it is sometimes base; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least... | |
 | Charles Richmond, Paul Smith - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 232 pages
...tone and character of the maxims which attracted him. 'The Rising unto place', he notes from Essay XI, 'is Laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities.'1' And he embraces the following notion of self-interest: Wisdom for a man's... | |
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