 And if your lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras did, who reduced himself with contemplation unto voluntary poverty: but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some office...  New Biographies of Illustrious Men - Page 441857 - 408 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty: but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...deputy, and so give over all care of service, and become Reeoicilftsome sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty: but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary " poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, " and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of ser" vice, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that " mine of truth, which, he said,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...do, I will sell the inheritance that 1 have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some ofiice of gain, that shall be executed by deputy, and so...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary poverty ; but this I will do : I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...in that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep. This which I have writ unto your lordship, is rather thoughts than words, being set down without all... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...contemplation unto voluntary " poverty : but this I will do, I will sell the inheritance that I have, " and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...be executed by deputy, and so give over all care of ser" vice, and become some sorry book-maker, or a true pioneer in that " mine of truth, which, he said,... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...contemplation into voluntary poverty ; but this I will do : I will sell the inheritance that I have, and purchase some lease of quick revenue, or some...that mine of truth, which, he said, lay so deep.' — Bacon's Works, vol. 12, p. 6. * Letter to lord Burleigh, vol. 12, pp. 5, 6. HIS LIFE AND WORKS.... | |
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