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The Essays Or Counsels, Civil and Moral ; And, Wisdom of the Ancients - Page 34
by Francis Bacon - 1852 - 349 pages
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 458 pages
...downefall, or at least an Eclipse, which is a Melancholy Thing. Cum nan sis, qui fueris, non esse, cur veils vivere. Nay, retire Men cannot, when they would ; neither will they, when it were Reason : But are impatient of privatenesse, even in Age, and Sicknesse, which require the Shadow: Like...
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Bacon's Essays and Colours of Good and Evil

Francis Bacon - 1868 - 472 pages
...least an Eclipse, which is a Melancholy Thing. Cum non sis, qui fueris, non esse, cur velis m-vere. Nay, retire Men cannot, when they would; neither will they, when it were Reason: But are impatient of privatenesse, even in Age, and Sicknesse, which require the Shadow: Like...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...seal: p. 69, 1. 16. Privateness, sb. Privacy: p. lo, 1. 29; p, 15, 1. 16, &c. Comp. Essay xi. p. 39 : ' Nay, retire men cannot, when they would ; neither will they. when it were reason : but are impatient of privatenesse, even in age, and Probably, adv. With probability, in a...
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A Harmony of the Essays, Etc. of Francis Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1871 - 678 pages
...flippery ; and the regreffe is either a downfall, or at leafl an Ealiffe ; which is a malancholy thing. Nay, retire, men cannot when they would, neither will they when it were VZ. JTariationa in postfjumouss latin Qjition of 1638. I TITLE. DeMagistratibiis&t* Digiiitatilnts,...
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A New Variorum Edition of Shakespeare: King Lear. 1880

William Shakespeare - 1880 - 526 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, Sijuyeres Tnlf (1. 10562, ed. T. Wright) : ' Tho speeken they of Canacees...
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A Thousand and One Gems of English Prose

1872 - 556 pages
...you are no longer what you were, j here is no reason why you should desire to live as a nonentity."] 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...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing. Cum non sis qui fueris, non esse cur velis vtvere.1 Nay, retire men cannot when they would ; neither will they when it were reason,3 but are impatient of privateness even in age and sickness, which require the shadow :3 like...
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Twenty of Bacon's essays, ed. by F. Storr

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...downfall, or at least an eclipse, 8 which is a melancholy thing. 9 '-'-Cum non sis quifueris non esse cur velis vivere."™ 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...
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King Lear

William Shakespeare - 1875 - 234 pages
...'wonderful,' 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, l. 10562, ed. T. Wright): ' Tho speeken...
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Bacon's essays, with intr., notes and index by E.A. Abbott, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...downfall or 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 they when it were reason, but are impatient of privateness, even 15 in age and sickness, which require the shadow ; like...
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