| Thomas Martin - 1835 - عدد الصفحات: 388
...constant mind, Though single.' He knew himself by inward calling, — these are his own words, — to be fitter to 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... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - عدد الصفحات: 864
...errors, which I do willingly acknowledge j and, amongst the rest, this great one that led the rest ; effect in rectifying that body of parliament-men,...renan. For let me tell your Majesty, that that pa i ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and • The earl of Northampton was the second son, and... | |
| Isaac Disraeli - 1839 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...man once, holding out a book, " than for the life I have of late led. Nature has not fitted me for that ; knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part." BUFFON, who consumed his mornings in his old tower of Montbar, at the end of his garden, with all nature... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...committed, which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest, this great one that led the rest ; o popular judgment and observation, may be referred to our remarks on the idols of the 1 have led my life in civil causes, fur which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1841 - عدد الصفحات: 616
...committed, which 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, 1 have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation... | |
| 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 544
...by Desire of Applause. 371 that knowing myself, by inward calling, to be fitter to hold a book than play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for...and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind." The world would have been wiser, and he wiser and better, if every hour of his life, after the first... | |
| 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 546
...the rest ; that knowing myself, by inward calling, to be fitter to hold a book than play a part, 1 have led my life in civil causes, for which I was...and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind." The world would have been wiser, and he wiser and better, if every hour of his life, after the first... | |
| 1842 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...among the rest, this great one that led the rest ; 1842.] Not influenced by Desire of Applause. 371 that knowing myself, by inward calling, to be fitter to hold a book than play a part, 1 have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit... | |
| John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - عدد الصفحات: 672
...Sir Thomas Bodley his many errors, and among the rest, says he, " this great one which led the rest, that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than play a part, I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - عدد الصفحات: 612
...committed, which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the Test, this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...a book, than to play a part, I have led my life in sivil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.... | |
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