 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1680 - 410 pagini
...will be fure to leave the Houfe fotne time before it fall. It is the Wifdom of the FOJC, that thrufts out the Badger, who digged and made room for him. It is the Wifdom of Crocodiles, that fhed tears when they would devour. But that which is fpecially to be noted,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1812 - 348 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof,...wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall: it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall ; it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and... | |
 | George William MacArthur Reynolds - 1817 - 192 pagini
...sorrow, — but with the determination to hasten to Guernsey and see Emily without delay CHAPTER LIII. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing ; it is the wisdom of nits, that will be sine to leave a house some time before It falls; It is the *visdom of the fox, that... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave the house some time before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is in many branches thereof...is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave the house some time before it fall. It is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves; and for either re*pect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof,...wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall: it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made... | |
 | 1821 - 416 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof,...wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and... | |
 | 1842 - 614 pagini
...question, but there is no controversy at all about their wisdom. " VVisdom for a man's self," says Bacon, " is in many branches thereof a depraved thing: it is...wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house sometime before it fall." We should be curious to meet with the work of Rorarius, were it only to ascertain... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pagini
...please them, and profit themselves ; and for either respect they will abandon the good of their affairs. Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof^...that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fell : it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger, who digged and made room for him :... | |
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Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing. It is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall. 
