 MY LORD, — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient: one and...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 204by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 634 pages
...excellent power and earneflnefs. MT d \A7^^ as Puck confidence, as mine own honest, and faithfull y VV Devotion unto your Service, and your honourable Correspondence...in a Man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I waxe now somewhat ancient ; One and thirty yeares, is a great deal of sand, in the Houre-glasse, My... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 642 pages
...life and purpofes up to that time, and is exprefled with excellent power and earneflnefs. respondence unto me, and my poor estate, can breed in a Man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship. I waxe now somewhat ancient: One and thirty yearcs, is a great deal of sand, in the Houre-glasse. My... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1871 - 678 pages
...mine own honest, and faithf y ' VV Devotion unto your Service, and your honourable Cu, ..•spondence unto me, and my poor estate, can breed in a Man, do I coinpaininii, man must p;ins ui .rtuiion arc. i ever u HC a. JUIMU, MI sumc mio.aie place, that I could... | |
 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 824 pages
...the point when he entered upon his thirty-second. To MY LORD TREASURER BUROHLEY. My Lord, — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honorable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your... | |
 | Richard William Church - Philosophers - 1884 - 388 pages
...made in a simple good faith which is as far as possible from vain boastfulness. " MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable correspoudence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship.... | |
 | Richard William Church - Great Britain - 1884 - 260 pages
...made in a simple good faith which is as far as possible from rain boastf ulness. . " MY LOUD—"With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and vow honourable correspondeuce unto mo and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I com* mend myself... | |
 | William Henry Burr - 1886 - 110 pages
...a letter written in 1592 by Bacon to his uncle, Lord Treasurer Burleigh, in which he says : " I wax somewhat ancient ; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass." At the age of 31 he thinks himself "somewhat ancient ;" two years earlier he apprehends that forty... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...of Francis Bacon in this respect. John Campbell says: He writes to his uncle Burleigh in 1591: I am now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. ' And again he says, about the same time: I would be sorry she [the Queen] should estrange in my last... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 638 pages
...that was finally confirmed by Dryden. WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD — With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient ; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - English prose literature - 1894 - 624 pages
...that was finally confirmed by Dryden. WILLIAM MINTO. LETTER TO LORD BURGHLEY IN 1591 MY LORD—With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful...myself unto your lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient; one-and-thirty is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed;... | |
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