 | William Durran - 1913 - 588 σελίδες
...thousand.' Bacon's reflections assume a less enthusiastic form. These are his words : ' Knowing myself to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I...which I was not very fit by nature and more unfit by preoccupation of my mind.'1 There is no appeal from this pathetic review 1 ' If we are to accept Huxley... | |
 | William Durran - 1913 - 610 σελίδες
...thousand.' Bacon's reflections assume a less enthusiastic form. These are his words : ' Knowing myself to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I...which I was not very fit by nature and more unfit by preoccupation of my mind.'1 There is no appeal from this pathetic review of that portion of Bacon's... | |
 | Frank Herbert Hayward - 1917 - 284 σελίδες
...business success. If he tried he might succeed. Bacon confessed to legal failure : " Knowing myself to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part, I...which I was not very fit by nature and more unfit by preoccupation of my mind." Is not the second explanation — " preoccupation of mind " — sufficient... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1925 - 352 σελίδες
...are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge ; and amongst the rest this great one led the rest ; that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind."1 We have an earlier example of dissatisfaction with the very course of life which later on Bacon... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 σελίδες
...ambition of the understanding which Bacon early recognized as his genius — "knowing myself," he wrote, "by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part." Few men are presented with such a choice, because few are thus doubly endowed. Bacon actually did follow... | |
 | Perez Zagorin - 1998 - 318 σελίδες
...friend in 1605, to whom he wrote that his mind had been absent from many things he had done and that "I have led my life in civil causes; for which I was...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind"; ibid., 3:253. In the essay "Of Nature in Men," he observed that "They are happy men whose natures sort... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 σελίδες
...amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward calling to be finer to hold a book than to play a part, I have led my...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself; whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Dictionary - 1885 - 472 σελίδες
...many errors which I do willingly acknowledge, and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest : that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.' This confession must not be taken too literally. Every man deeply enRaged in politics sighs at times... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1878 - 1766 σελίδες
...acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest ; that knowing myself by in ward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a...nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind.' * Too much significance, however, may easily be given to words like these ; so much depends on the... | |
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I do confess, since I was of any understanding, my mind hath in effect been absent from that I have done; and in absence are many errors which I do willingly acknowledge; and amongst the rest this great one that led the rest; that knowing myself by inward... 
