 | Horace Walpole - 1806 - 426 페이지
...runs either to herbs or weeds, therefore let him seasonably water the one, and destroy the other. " Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. " The best governments are always subject to be like the fairest crystals, wherein every isicle or... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 페이지
...or perceiving at all; but shows and " species virtutibus similes," serve best with them. Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drown things weighty and solid; but if persons of quality and judgment concur, then it is (as the scripture... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 페이지
...or perceiving at all ; but shews and " species virtutibus similes" serve best with them. Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drown things weighty and solid ; but if persons of quality and judgment cpncur, then it is, (as the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 페이지
...suits, are not to be liked ; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. 103. Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. 104. Seneca saith well, that anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls on. 105. Excusations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 페이지
...liked ; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. 103. Fame is like a rirer, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. 104. Seneca saith well, that anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls on. 105. Excusations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 페이지
...suits, are not to be liked ; lest, while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter. 68. Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. 69. Seneca saith well, that anger is like ruin, which breaks itself upon that it falls. 70. Excusations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 214 페이지
...or perceiving at all ; but shews and " species virtutibus similes," serve best with them. Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid; but if persons of quality and judgment concur, then it is (as the scripture saith), " Nomen bonurn... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 페이지
...of perceiving at all; but shaws and "species virtutibus similes," serve best with them. Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light...and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid-; but if persons of quality and judgment concur, then it is (as the scripture saith), " Nomen bonum instar... | |
 | 1821 - 416 페이지
...or perceiving at all; but shews and " species virtutibus similes," serve best with them. Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things Weighty and solid; but if persons of quality and jndgment concur, then it is (as the scripture saith), " Nomen bonum instar... | |
 | 1878 - 1002 페이지
...be regarded as impotent. Exactly the reverse of what Lord Bacon said of ' fame ' is true of time : ' Fame is like a river that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.' We will try to show that time, like a river, beareth up things weighty and solid, and drowns things... | |
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Certainly, fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid... 
