 The rising unto place 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 eclipse, which is a melancholy...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 43by Francis Bacon - 1815Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...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...standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...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...self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains 3 men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities 4 men come to dignities.... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1878 - 368 pages
...their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place ia laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains, and it is sometimes base and by indignities men... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a s strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty : or to seek power over others and to lose...by indignities men come to dignities. The standing to is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...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...man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains3 men come to greater pains ; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities4 men come to dignities.... | |
 | George Sylvester Morris - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 404 pages
...illustrated the truth of the following observations, taken from his essay, entitled "Of Great Place": "The rising unto place is laborious ; and by pains men come to greater pains ; and it is base ; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire atest violence LORD BACON : Essay XI., Of Great Place. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a 5 strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty : or to seek power over others and to lose...by indignities men come to dignities. The standing 10 is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...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...pains; and it is sometimes base, and by indignities 8 men come to dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least... | |
 | William Mathews - American essays - 1881 - 358 pages
...saine this in soth That he is gentle, because he doth As longeth to a gentleman." OFFICE -SEEKING. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men...sometimes base, and by indignities men come to dignities. — BACON. ( OME years ago a Washington letter-writer, describing a visit to General Cass, reported... | |
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