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 | Ambrose Serle - Holy Spirit - 1801 - 392 pages
...Bacon, the chancellor, declares that "men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovreign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, either in their persons, in their actions, or in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. OF 0reat Place. MEN in great place are thrice servants; servants of the...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...mankind ; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants; servants of the...their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their tiroes. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lo«e liberty ; or to seek power over others, and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...Love maketh mankind; friendly Love perfecteth it ; but wanton Love corrupteth and embaseth it. IVlEN in Great Place are thrice servants: servants of the...and servants of business. So as they have no freedom either in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...Love maketh mankind; friendly Love perfectetl! it ; but wanton Love corrupteth and embaseth it. 1V1.EN in Great Place are thrice servants : servants of the...and servants of business. So as they have no freedom either in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...; friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. XI. OF GEEAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants : servants of the...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek power, and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...mankind; friendly love perfecteth it; but wanton love corvupteth and embaseth it. XI. OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants; servants of the...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...friendly love perfecteth it ; but wanton love corrupteth and embaseth it. . XI. OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and to lose liberty ; or to seek power over others, and to lose... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...Unmindful of his own words : " That men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, and lose power over themselves," •... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 408 pages
...Unmindful of his own words : " That men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign in state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business...persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. Power they seek, and lose liberty : they seek power over others, and lose power over themselves." Unmindful... | |
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