 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 sider
...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. Therefore callingmyself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 sider
...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...by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of mymind. Therefore callingmyself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1822 - 472 sider
...many errors, which I 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. - Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself: whereof likewise likewise I... | |
 | 1822 - 386 sider
...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 pre-occupation of my mind. Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof, likewise, I desire to... | |
 | Isaac Disraeli - 1822 - 344 sider
...man once, holding out a book, " than for the life I have of late led. Nature has not fitted me for that; knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part." BUFFON, who consumed his mornings in his old tower of Montbar, at the end of his garden, with all nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 sider
...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. Therefore calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, whereof likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 sider
...many errors which I willingly acknowledge, and amongst the rest, this great one, which led the rest, that knowing myself by inward calling to be fitter...which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by pre-occupation of mind." His consciousness of the wanderings of his mind made him run into affairs... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 sider
...committed, 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. Therefore, calling myself home, I have now for a time enjoyed myself, where likewise I desire to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 sider
...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...to play a part, I have led my life in civil causes j for which I was not very fit by nature, and more unfit by the preoccupation of my mind. Tennison... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 sider
...his own words, — to be fitter to hold a book than to play a part. ' I have led my life,' he said, ' in civil causes, for which I was not very fit by nature,...and more unfit by the pre-occupation of my mind.* ' Though • Bacon's Works, vol. 12, p. 82; and see p. 44. . HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 9l engaged in 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... 
