 Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even in age and sickness, which require the shadow; like old townsmen, that will' be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they...  Essays moral, economical and political - Page 38by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 196 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur veils vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even 15 in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : ' Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur veils vivere.'* Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were reason ;6 but are impatient7 of privateness3 even in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...seek power over others, and to lose power over a man's self. LORD BACON : Essay XI., Of Great Place. can tell Parthenissa, for her comfort, thnt the beauties,...An apparent desire of admiration, a reflection upon lhat will be still sitting at their street door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. LORD BACON... | |
 | 1880 - 594 pages
...submission. Go and set forth these things, while our army marches up and down on these level green fields. " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's...think themselves happy. For if they judge by their own feelings, they cannot find it ; but if they think with themselves what other men think of them, and... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Great Britain - 1880 - 486 pages
...gravest of national maladies, were eating their way fast and deep into the hearts of the people.1 " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy."* So said a famous student who, to his cost, was likewise a minister of state ; and the truth of the... | |
 | George Otto Trevelyan - Biography & Autobiography - 1880 - 488 pages
...gravest of national maladies, were eating their way fast and deep into the hearts of the people.1 " Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy."3 So said a famous student who, to his cost, was likewise a minister of state ; and the truth... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur veils vivere. g Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their street-door, though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere. Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even »5 in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like old townsmen, that will be still sitting at... | |
 | Eugen Kölbing, Johannes Hoops, Reinald Hoops - Comparative linguistics - 1881 - 536 pages
...beware of=to be aware of, eig. gewahr sein, wird übersetzt durch »sich hüten vor«. Men cannot retire when they would, neither will they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness (obsolete für seclusion) even in age and sickness which require the shadow. Bac. E. 11, latein.: impatiens... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...whether Bacon is chanting a quanta patimur or expressing his real feelings in Essay xi. 11. 5-20, ' Certainly great persons had need to borrow other men's opinions to think themselves happy.' For Bacon's quanta patimur, as chanted in his correspondence, see Introduction, p. xxi. The allusion may... | |
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