 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - عدد الصفحات: 460
...confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done . . . knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold...and more unfit, by the preoccupation of my mind.' Letters and Life, iii. 253. Again in a private prayer, written in 1621, and termed by Addison the devotion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - عدد الصفحات: 440
...many errors2 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...play a part, I have led my life in civil causes; for whieh I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore; calling... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1892 - عدد الصفحات: 402
...errors, 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... | |
 | Garnet Smith - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 326
...detestation of " that animal named man," of Yahoo-humanity. On the other hand, Bacon, knowing himself "by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part," nevertheless held it necessary for the furtherance of his contemplative designs to win place and gold.... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 472
...many errors 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 apart, I have led my life in civil causes ; for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1895 - عدد الصفحات: 714
...are many errors which I willingly acknowledge : and among them, this great one which led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to ploy a part. I have led my life in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit... | |
 | Elizabeth Lee - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 258
...absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; . . . knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. The next year Bacon married Alice Barnham, the daughter of a rich alderman, and in 1607 was appointed... | |
 | John Caird - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...the rest this great one that led the rest: that knowing myself by inward calling to be better fitted to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my...which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by preoccupation of mind." And again, in a prayer which he composed towards the close of his life, he... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...That did not better for my life provide, Than public means which public manners breeds." Sonnet 3. have led my life in civil causes for which I was not...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind." — Letter to Bodley (1605). " I have mis-spent [my life] in things for which I was least fit; so as... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 478
...since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done ; . . . knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I spies, 68 Made old offences of affections new; Most true it is that I have look'd on truth Askance... | |
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I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward... 
