 OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire...  Philosophical works - Sivu 268tekijä(t) Francis Bacon - 1854Koko teos - Tietoja tästä kirjasta
 | Will Durant - 1965 - 736 sivua
...so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their action, nor in their time. . . . The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men...dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse."112 What a wistful summary of Bacon's epilogue! 11lNoi>.... | |
 | Angela Partington - 1992 - 1098 sivua
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 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 sivua
...to know the ignominy of asking and being refused. "The rising unto place," he would one day write, "is laborious, and by pains men come to greater pains;...dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing." Eden was gone and all the joys... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 sivua
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 | Antony Jay - 1996 - 536 sivua
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 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 sivua
...success in the courts of princes and the drawbacks and burdens that accompanied high state office: Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of...dignities. The standing is slippery, and the regress is either a downfall, or at least an eclipse, which is a melancholy thing.85 When he wrote these lines... | |
 | Kate Aughterson - 2002 - 623 sivua
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