 | Edwin Paxton Hood - 1885 - 728 pages
...a house on fire, if only to ?*< their own eggs." Further he continues, " Wisdom for a man's self n many branches thereof a depraved thing ; it is the...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 pages
...effect the Essay on Truth tells us that " Clear and round dealing is the honour of man's nature ; " " Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing " (xxiii. 41) ; and " nothing doth more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise " (xxii.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...please them and profit themselves, and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 pages
...please them and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof,...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It... | |
 | Robert Cochrane - 1887 - 572 pages
...please them, and profit themselves: and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him. It... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...is the nature of self -lovers as they will set a house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. Baton. " Enlighten self-interest," cries the philosopher, " do but sufficiently enlighten it... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...is the nature of self-lovers as they will set a house on fire and it were but to roast their eggs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. Bacon. " Enlighten self-interest," cries the philosopher, " do but suffieiently enlighten it!"—We... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 pages
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof,...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall: it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him: it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 pages
...please them and profit themselves, and for either respect the}' will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him ;... | |
 | John Nichol - 1889 - 284 pages
...Eevenge," on " Simulation and Dissimulation," on "Wisdom for a Man's Self," — " in many branches a depraved thing, it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house before its fall." It is the mere malice of detraction to say that the worldly view is the man ; the... | |
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Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him; it... 
