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" IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things to desire, and many things to fear... "
The English Enchiridion; Being a Selection of Apothegms, Moral Maxims, Etc - Page 63
by John Feltham - 1799
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...of mind to have few things to desire and many things to fear, and yet that commonly is the case of kings, who, being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing and have many representations of perils and shadows, which make their minds the less clear. And this...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...prick in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country. OF EMPIRE. IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things...desire, which makes their minds more languishing; and have many representations of perils and shadows, which make their minds the less clear : and this...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...some flowers of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country. XIX. OF EMPIRE. ' % of kings, who being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing:...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, with notes by A. Spiers

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...some flowers of that5 he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country. XIX. OF EMPIRE. 1 . It is a miserable state of mind to have few things...things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings, who being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country. XIX. OF EMPIRE. It is a miserable state of mind to have few things...things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings, who being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...in some flowers of that he hath learned abroad, into the customs of his own country. XIX. OF EMPIRE. asonings : so that some do extremely move appetites;...so, as divers do live on them, without any other mea of kings, who being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing:...
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Bacon's essays, with annotations by R. Whately

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...other. One will have seen all that is green, and the other, all that is orange. ESSAY XIX. OF EMPIRE. IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things...desire, which makes their minds more languishing, and have many representations of perils and shadows, which make their minds the less clear : and this...
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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...some flowers of that he hath learned abroad into the customs of his own country. XIX.— OF EMPIRE. IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things...things to fear; and yet that commonly is the case of kings, who, being at the highest, want matter of desire,1 which makes their minds more languishing...
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Bacon's Essays: With Annotations

Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...whom, from the name, he supposes to comprise all who agree with him in religion. ESSAY XIX. OF EMPIRE. IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things...desire, which makes their minds more languishing, and have many representations of perils and shadows, which make their minds the less clear : and this...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 6

Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 pages
...complvriwn. ' quomodo 01, vullu», et corpora Uncamenta et moins, retpondeant fama. XIX. OF EMPIRE. IT is a miserable state of mind to have few things...things to fear ; and yet that commonly is the case of kings ; who, being at the highest, want matter of desire, which makes their minds more languishing...
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