...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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...

...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,...

...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...

...good. At the least I shall not repent myself of the meditation. Lener to Lord Burghley" My Lord, With as much confidence as mine own honest and faithful devotion unto your service and your honourable correspondence0 unto me and my poor state can breed in a man, do I commend myself unto your Lordship....