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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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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 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...unworthily ambitious to meddle in things that may be 5 Home people are so delicate that they ima-3riuc difliculties to exist where everything is clear....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 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...leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of bu siness, (except ho be either tedious and of no despatch, or lightly and unworthily ambitious to...
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...breedeth any such point in his nature. 6. And that learning should take up too much time or leisure : I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been...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 Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...indefatigable, if it be towards any business that can detain their minds. The most active or busy men that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many...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; whether...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...that 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...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 Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...that 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...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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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...that 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...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 Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...that 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...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 Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...that 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...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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Memories of Merton

John Bruce Norton - 1861 - 178 pages
...bustling toil turn staid recluse ? * See note F, at the end. CXX/VTII. o ii c I usio tt. (Continued.) " 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, whether...
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