 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, " BUI amantes, sine rivali," are many times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox that thrusts out the badger,...are many times unfortunate. And whereas they have in all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...which, as Cicero says of Pompey, are sui amantes sine rinali, are many times unfortunate. And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) axe, "sui amantes, sine rivali," are many times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their times... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1829 - 354 pages
...depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall: it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, ' sui amante, sine rival!," are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to... | |
 | Laconics - 1829 - 358 pages
...depraved thing: it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall: it is the •wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, isui amante, sine rivali," are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed... | |
 | Anniversary calendar - Almanacs, English - 1832 - 548 pages
...for a nun's self ii the wisdom of rats, that will be sore to leave a house sometime before it fall : it IS the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him : it u the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. Bacon. Scti! THE Emperor, Flavius... | |
 | George Edmonds (of Birmingham.) - English language - 1832 - 122 pages
...is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leane a house sometime before it falls; it is thewistiom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him; and it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour: BUT those who are sui amnnte... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom ot rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...would devour. But that which is specially to be noted ia, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are " sui amanle, sine rivali," are many times unfortunate... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox that thrusts out the badger,...crocodiles that shed tears when they would devour." Prejudice from Fear of Trouble. Another form in which this tenacity appears, is the fear of trouble... | |
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Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it... 
