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" 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 204
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes ...

Anecdotes - 1918 - 708 pages
...FOIBLES IS B BACON, Francia, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, 1561-1626. Lord Chancellor of England. I wax now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. ... I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — LORD BACON, letter to Lord Burghley. Whether...
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Wit, Wisdom and Foibles of the Great: Together with Numerous Anecdotes ...

Charles Anthony Shriner - Anecdotes - 1918 - 712 pages
...Age*." В BACON, Francis, Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albane, 1501-1620. Lord Chancellor of England. I wax now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. ... I have taken all knowledge to be my province. — LOBO BACON, letter to Lord Burghley. Whether...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 712 pages
...With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honorable d he; He play'da spring,i and danc'd it round, Below...breath? — On mony a bloody plain I've dar'd his hour glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed; and I do not fear that action shall impair it,...
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The Great Tradition: A Book of Selections from English and American Prose ...

Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - American literature - 1919 - 714 pages
...KNOWLEDGE TO BE MY PROVINCE" FRANCIS BACON [A Letter to Lord Chancellor Burghley] MY LORD — With d others, and we also shall be ancients honorable correspondence unto me and my poor estate can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your...
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Gabriel Harvey and Thomas Nashe

Edward George Harman - Authors, English - 1923 - 322 pages
...recalls at once Bacon's remarks in his letter to his uncle where he complains that he waxes " something ancient : one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass," and he concludes as follows : 1 This adage is quoted in the anonymous " Horse Subsecivae," 1620, which...
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Elizabethan Verse and Prose (non-dramatic)

George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 pages
...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...myself unto your Lordship. I wax now somewhat ancient; one-and-thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. My health, I thank God, I find confirmed;...
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Shakespeare and the Poet's Life

Gary Schmidgall - Biography & Autobiography - 1990 - 256 pages
...s<x>ner then. In 1592, when Bacon was roughly the age of the Sonnets' author, he wrote to Burghley, "I wax now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hourglass." Sonnet 73 perfectly expresses the "twilight" mood of a courtly attendant and is reminiscent of some...
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Francis Bacon: The Temper of a Man

Catherine Drinker Bowen - Biography & Autobiography - 1993 - 294 pages
...sincerity. Moreover he knew his uncle too well to attempt blandishment. "My Lord," the letter begins. ... "I wax now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass. I ever bare in mind to serve her Majesty, not as a man born under Sol, that loveth honour, nor under...
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The Cambridge Companion to Bacon

Markku Peltonen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 406 pages
...grand schemes of philosophical reform in mind. In 1592 he wrote his oft-quoted letter to Lord Burghley: "I wax now somewhat ancient; one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour-glass" (VIII, 108). He expressed a youthful determination to serve the queen, not as a soldier, nor a statesman,...
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To Conquer is to Live: The Life of Captain John Smith of Jamestown

Kieran Doherty - Juvenile Nonfiction - 2001 - 152 pages
...philosopher Francis Bacon, who lived at about the same time as Smith, said of himself in 1592, "I was now somewhat ancient: one and thirty years is a great deal of sand in the hour glass."6 If Smith felt the way Bacon did — "somewhat ancient" — he must have been anxious...
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