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" And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious... "
An Introductory Lecture Delivered at the Opening of the Bangor Lyceum: Nov ... - Page 15
by Frederic Henry Hedge - 1836 - 29 pages
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Volume 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath been or can he, hath, no question, many vacant limes of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath...hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while heexpecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...or not is another question. He says : " And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business i except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...all men they are the most indefatigable, if it be towards any business that can detain their minds The most active or busy man that hath been or can...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business. And then the question is, but, how those spaces and times of • leisure shall be filled and spent...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...breedeth any such point in his nature. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath...of business (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others...
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The Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, Volume 1

1833 - 492 pages
...I am proposing to you ? Has it not been said by the very highest authority on this question, that " the most active or busy man that hath been or can...hath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while heexpecteth the times and returns of business, (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...or not is another question. He says : " And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer ; the most active or busy man, that hath been or cao be, bath, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...all men they are the most indefatigable, if it be towards any business that can detain their minds The most active or busy man that hath been or can be, luith, no question, many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business....
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Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Work ...

Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...their mind.' 'And that learning should take up too much time or leisure ; I answer,' says Bacon, ' the most active or busy man that hath been or can...of business, (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be better done by others:)...
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The Transactions of the Provincial Medical and Surgical Association, Volume 1

Provincial Medical and Surgical Association - 1836 - 482 pages
...I am proposing to you ? Has it not been said by the very highest authority on this question, that " the most active or busy man that hath been or can...many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the times and returns of business, (except he be either tedious and of no dispatch, or lightly and unworthily...
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