 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
 | George Otto Trevelyan - 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 - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1881 - 248 pages
...just, as in Bacon frequently we find ' reason ' for ' reasonable.' See for instance Essay xi. p. 39 : ' Nay, retire Men cannot, when they would ; neither will they, when it were Reason.' It occurs in Chaucer, Squyeres Tale (Canterbury Tales, 1. 10562, ed. T.Wright): * Tho speeken they... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - 1882 - 492 pages
...a melancholy thing. Nay, men cannot retire when they would, neither will they when it were reason,3 but are impatient of privateness, even in age and...other men's opinions to think themselves happy, for, it they judge by their own feeling, they cannot find it ; but, if they think with themselves what other... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing : " Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vivere."a Nay, retire men cannot when they would, neither will...old townsmen, that will be still sitting at their streetdoor, though thereby they offer age to scorn. Certainly great persons had need to borrow other... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 330 pages
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 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 324 pages
...whether Bacon is chanting a quanta palimur or expressing his real feelings in Essay xi. U. ;-;o. ' 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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