 | Ely Bates - 1804 - 422 페이지
...to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind." Thus was this eminent genius, who was born for the advancement of learning and religion, lured away... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore callingmyself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of mymind. Therefore callingmyself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire... | |
 | 1822 - 386 페이지
...to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind. Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof, likewise, I desire to... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 472 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. - Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself: whereof likewise likewise I... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 페이지
...to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, where likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, where likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 페이지
...be fitter to hold a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes j for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Tennison says, To the like purpose in a MS. letter to the Lord Chancellor Egerton, which I have sometimes... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 페이지
...hold a book than to play a part. ' I have led my life,' he said, ' in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind.* ' Though • Bacon's Works, vol. 12, p. 82; and see p. 44. . HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 9l engaged in the... | |
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I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and... 
