 Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty.: but this I will do; I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give...  The works of Francis Bacon - Page 206by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - Statesmen - 1877 - 338 pages
...by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioner_ in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep. " This which I have written unto your Lordship is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all art, disguising,... | |
 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 824 pages
...office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of...art, disguising, or reservation. Wherein I have done honor both to your Lordship's wisdom, in judging that that will be best believed of your Lordship which... | |
 | James Spedding - Great Britain - 1878 - 402 pages
...a true pioneer in that mine of truth, whick.(he said) lay so deep. This which I have writ unto four Lordship is rather thoughts than words, being set...art, disguising, or reservation. Wherein I have done honor both to your Lordship's wisdom, ij^ judging that that will be best believed of your Lordship... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - Great Britain - 1882 - 524 pages
...office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which lies so deep." With the lofty assurance of genius — that self-knowledge and self-reliance which breathe... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 562 pages
...book-maker, or a true pioner * in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep. " This which I have written unto your Lordship is rather thoughts than words,...disguising, or reservation. Wherein I have done honour to your Lordship's wisdom in judging that that will be best believed of your Lordship which is truest,... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 540 pages
...by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioner1 in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep. " This which I have written unto your Lordship is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all art, disguising,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1886 - 432 pages
...office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep."1 Not far from this time were written the speeches in Praise of the Queen and in Praise of Knowledge,... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1887 - 482 pages
...quite in keeping with what Bacon said in his letter to Burleigh, when he thought of becoming " some sorry bookmaker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which (he [Anaxagoras] said) lay so deep." (Ante, p. 86.) Nor is there anything in the context that would intimate... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...office of gain that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which (he said) lay so deep." In a later address to the "Atlas of this Commonwealth," 1595, Bacon, referring to himself as "a tired... | |
 | Ignatius Donnelly - 1888 - 520 pages
...office of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of service and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth which, Anaxagoras said, lay so deep. In 1591 the Queen visits him at his brother's place at Twickenham, and... | |
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