 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 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...times unfortunate. And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...dqiraved thing : it is thie 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...is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, "eui amantes, sine rival¡,*" are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their times sacrificed... | |
 | Edward Stanley Bosanquet - 1840 - 436 pages
...thereof, a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that whereas- they have all their times sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 572 pages
..." Wisdom for a man's self," says Lord Bacon, " is in many branches thereof a depraved thing. ' ' ' But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which, as Cicero says of Pompey, sui amantes sine rivati, are many times unfortunate. And, whereas they have all their time sacrificed... | |
 | Commerce - 1840 - 556 pages
...But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which, as Cicero says of Pompey, sui Uinanles sine rivali, are many times unfortunate. And, whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune,... | |
 | James Flint - Youth - 1844 - 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...crocodiles, that shed tears, when they would devour." How remote from all affinity to this species of wisdom was the ingenuous, transparent plainness of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 226 pages
...adepraved 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...they would devour. But that which is specially to be noticed, is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are ' Sui amantes sine rivali,'* are many... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noticed, is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are...times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end themselves sacrifices to the inconstancy of fortune,... | |
 | Edward Foss - Courts - 1857 - 544 pages
...depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it falls. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...(as Cicero says of Pompey) are ' sui amantes, sine rival!,' are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their times sacrificed to themselves,... | |
 | Andrew Steinmetz - 1848 - 666 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats that will be sure to leave a hoase some time before it fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are " nit amantes sine rirali," admit no rival in their selfish schemes, are many times unfortunate ; and... | |
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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... 
