 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...  Progressive Readings in Prose - Seite 69herausgegeben von - 1923 - 376 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 Seiten
...least an eclipse, "which is a melancholy thing: " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere" f Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; J like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street-door, though thereby they offer age... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 Seiten
...doceamur.' — 0/vra, torn. i. fo. 79. • Bacon fully realised the truth of this when he wrote, ' Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's...they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains.' — Essays, p. 92, cd.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Elyot - 1883 - 682 Seiten
...esse doceamur.' — Opera, torn. i. fo. 79. b Bacon fully realised the truth of this when he wrote, ' Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's...they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it ..... The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains." — Essays, p. 92,... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - 1883 - 128 Seiten
...(2.) This is my son, mine own Telemachus, To whom I leave the sceptre and the isle. (3.) Old townsmen will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. (4.) What men are they ? Such as trample on all foes. (5.) We drove afield, and both together heard... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1884 - 486 Seiten
...either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Nay, men cannot retire when Hiey would, neither will they when it were reason,» but...other men's opinions to think themselves happy, for, it they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it; but, if they think with themselves what other... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 Seiten
...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...that will be still sitting at their street door,' 1 though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions... | |
 | Democracy - 1884 - 208 Seiten
...possessing liberty * Trevelyan's " Fox," p. 112. of choice. Referring to a passage in an essay of Bacon's, " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy," Mr. Trevelyan observes, " So said a famous student who, to his cost, was likewise a Minister of State... | |
 | Jonathan Eastwood, William Aldis Wright - 1884 - 768 Seiten
...Reason, sb. (Acts vi. 2). Used where we should now employ the adjective ' reasonable.' Thus in Bacon ; Nay, retire men cannot, when they would ; neither will they, when it were reason. Ess. XI. p. 39. Those that are first raised to nobility, are commonly more vertuous, but lesse innocent,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 Seiten
...p. 69, 1. 16. Privateness, sb. Privacy : p. 10, 1. 29 ; p. 15, 1. 16, &c. Comp. Essay jti. 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 - 1886 - 304 Seiten
...of privateness, even 15 m age OTI(J sickness) which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, tnat wju be still sitting at their street door, though thereby...they offer age to scorn. Certainly great persons had m .,.,] to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy. For if they judge by their io own... | |
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