 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...  Philosophical works - Page 268by Francis Bacon - 1854Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...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 thing...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own lecling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : ' Cum non sisqui fueris, " non esse cur velis vivere." Nay, retire...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow ot her men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own ieeling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Ciim non sisqui fueris, " non esse cur velis vivere." Nay, retire...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow ot her men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...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 thing...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...pains : and it is sometimes base ; and by indignities men come to dignities. The standing is slipper)-, We said, " we were all ready to take that oath."...another of the attendants of the great person, which seom. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy ; for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...cur velis vivere ?" Nay, retire men cannot when they would ; neither will they when it were reason j but are impatient of privateness, even in age and...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy j for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...Since you are no longer what you were, there is no reason why you should desire to live as a nonentity. cannot when they would, neither will they when it...sitting at their street door, though thereby they ofter age to scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves... | |
 | American periodicals - 1894 - 854 pages
..." becomes again pregnant with new meaning. We are aware that the greatest of orar moralists says, " Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn." But, it must be remembered, Lord Bacon was an Englishman, reared under the influence of our climate,... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing: Cum non sis, qui fueris, non esse, cur veils vivere * / Nay, retire men cannot when they would...scorn. Certainly, great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...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 thing...scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy; for if they judge by their own feeling, they cannot... | |
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