| Richard William Church - Statesmen - 1920 - 242 pages
...encounter in any other. And if your Lordship shall find now, or at any time, that I do seek or affect any place whereunto any that is nearer unto your Lordship...Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voli poverty, but this I will do — I will sell the inheritance I and purchase some lease of quick... | |
| Henry Osborn Taylor - Europe - 1920 - 460 pages
...(if one take it favorably) philanthropia , is so fixed in my mind that it cannot be removed. . . . And if your Lordship will not carry me on, I will...himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty; but ... I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office... | |
| Parker Woodward - English literature - 1920 - 182 pages
...Burleigh that he had vast contemplative ends but moderate civil ends, and that he did not seek or affect any place whereunto " any that is nearer unto your Lordship shall be concurrent." He affirmed that if his Lordship would not carry him on, he should sell what he had and give up all... | |
| Edward George Harman - Authors, English - 1923 - 322 pages
...Lord Burghley, asking him to do something for him in the way of State employment, Bacon says this : " And if your Lordship will not carry me on, I will...Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation into voluntary poverty : but this I will do : I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase... | |
| Edward George Harman - 1925 - 348 pages
...life which later on Bacon regretted having missed. Thus to his uncle, begging for State employment : " And if your Lordship will not carry me on, I will...Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation to voluntary poverty : but this I will do ; I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some... | |
| George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...encounter in any other. And if your Lordship shall find now, or at any time, that I do seek or affect any place whereunto any that is nearer unto your Lordship...but this I will do — I will sell the inheritance I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain that shall be executed by... | |
| Literature - 1860 - 964 pages
...of age, which, as he observes, is " a great deal of sand in the hour-glass." " If your lordship will carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation into voluntary poverty ; but this I will do — I will sell the inheritance that I have and purchase... | |
| William T. Smedley - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 220 pages
...shall find now. or at any time, that I do seek or affect any place, whereunto any that is nearer to your Lordship shall be concurrent, say then that I...dishonest man. And if your Lordship will not carry me on, 1 will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty ; but... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...do seek or affect any place whereunto any0 that is nearer unto your Lordship shall be concurrent,0 say then that I am a most dishonest man. And if your Lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras0 did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty:0 but this I will do;... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...seek or affect any place, whereunlo any that is nearer unto your lordship shall be concurrent, sny ustice, delivered first, and with best warrant to Moses, and as far as human pr 1 will not do aa Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but... | |
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