 | Mandell Creighton - Europe - 1876 - 276 pages
...constant, without all finesse and doubleness, and one that was of a mind that a man should rest upon the soundness and strength of his own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others.' His motto, ' Mediocria firma,' showed his sound common sense. When Elizabeth once remarked that his... | |
 | National cyclopaedia - 1879 - 702 pages
...a man, in his private proceedings and estate, and in the proceedings of state, should rert upon the soundness and strength of his own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others.' His fine manly form and dignity caused Queen Elizabeth to say of him, ' My lord-keeper'* tonl is well... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 562 pages
...the mind that a man, in his private proceedings and in the proceedings of state, should rest upon the soundness and strength of his own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others." 2 Possibly Sir Nicholas erred on the side of dilatoriness. At all events he " stayed " so long about... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 442 pages
...practice to circumvent others ; according to the sentence of Salomon, Vir prudens advertit ad /jressus suos, stultus autem divertit ad dolos ; insomuch that...Ross, a subtle and observing man, said of him that he stands, owing probably to some confusion in the original, caused by corrections and interlineations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 440 pages
...others ; according to the sentence of Salomon, Vir prudens advertit ad t/i-essus suos, stullus autern divertit ad dolos ; insomuch that the Bishop of Ross, a subtle and observing man, said of him that he stands, owing probably to some confusion in the original, caused by corrections and interlineations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 460 pages
...proceedings, and a state in the proceedings of state, should rest upon the soundness and strength of their own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others ; according to the sentence of Salomon, "Vir prudens advertit ad gressus suos, stultus autem divertit ad dolos." ' Letters and Life,... | |
 | Bertha Marian Skeat - Lamentatyon of Mary Magdaleyne - 1897 - 676 pages
...that a man in private proceedings and estate, and in the proceedings of state, should rest upon the soundness and strength of his own courses and not upon practice to circuinveut others; according to the sentence of Solomon, »Vir prudens advertit ad gressus suos, stultus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...proceedings, and a state in the proceedings of state, should rest upon the soundness and strength of their own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others; according to the sentence of Salomon, . . .'. XXIII. 'Of Wisedome for a Mans selfe' (pp. 73-5) 4-6. An Ant . . . Publique: cf. AL... | |
 | Various - 1867 - 732 pages
...that a man in his private proceedings and estate, and in the proceedings of state should rest upon the soundness and strength of his own courses, and not upon practice to circumvent others." Francis Bacon in his childhood was remarkably delicate, and distinguished from other boys by " a gravity... | |
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Bacon to be a man plain, direct, and constant, without all finesse and doubleness ; and one that was of the mind that a man in his private proceedings and estate, and in the proceedings of state, should rest upon the soundness and strength of his own... 
