 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 Seiten
...affairs. At a later day, he confessed as among the errors of his life " this great one which led the rest, that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than play a part I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 444 Seiten
...errors2 which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself; whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 450 Seiten
...many errors3 which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself; whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 Seiten
...errors8 which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself; whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Henry Allon - 1865 - 534 Seiten
...admission which accounts for many of the faults which have left an indelible stain on his character. ' Knowing myself, by inward calling, to be fitter to...which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by pre' occupation of mind.' It would have been a happy thing for him had he never striven after the vulgar... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 448 Seiten
...and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to he fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself; whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1874 - 508 Seiten
...by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than play a part, I have led my life in civil /rauses, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by pre-occupation of mind." When young, he had " vast contemplative ends and moderate civil ends." If... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 672 Seiten
...calling fitter to hold a book than to play a part, he had led his life in civil causes, for wfiich he was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of his mind." 2 At the height of his fortune, when he held the highest office under the Crown and little... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 Seiten
...and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward call- . ing. to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causet; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. i3aron... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 Seiten
...errors which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest — that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind." 2 When he rides to court as Lord Chancellor, with three hundred gallants attending him, the people... | |
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I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward... 
