 | Electronic journals - 1853 - 706 pages
...Query, How and when did this popular notion (now engrafted upon our political language) originate ? "It is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour."] This saying seems to be derived from the belief, that the crocodile imitates the cry of children in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that tin-lists ucre and profession ; and tenrs when they would devour. But that which is specially to be noted is, that those which, as Cicero... | |
 | British history - 1855 - 482 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." Bacon was accustomed to remark, "that the kingdom of science, like the kingdom of God, could only be... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house some time before its fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the...(as Cicero says of Pompey) are ' sui amantes sine rivali'4 are many times unfortunate; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 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...that those, which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, Sui Amanles sine Kwali, are many times unfortunate. And whereas they have all their time sacrificed to... | |
 | Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 372 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall : ;t is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger...those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, ' sui amante, sine rivali,"are many times unfortunate ; and whereas they have all their time sacrificed to... | |
 | John Timbs - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1856 - 374 pages
...thiug : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall : •:. is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger...crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. I'.ui that which is specially to be noted is, that those which (as Cicero says of Pompey) are, ' sui... | |
 | e.r. humphreys, lld - 1856 - 200 pages
...Bacon again, " is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall ; the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him ; the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour :" and this feeling must appear... | |
 | Catherine Grace F. Gore - 1856 - 328 pages
...notifying him as heir-presumptive to the barony of Askham of Edenbourne ? CHAPTER XXXI. Those who, as Tnlly says of Pompey, are sui amantes sine rivali, are many times unfortunate. For whereas they have all their time sacrificed to themselves, they become in the end sacrifices to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - Conduct of life - 1857 - 578 pages
...depraved thing : it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house some time before its 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,... | |
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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... 
