 | Francis Bacon - Great Britain - 1702 - 408 pages
...Strength,for Greatnefshe could " not want. Neither could I condole in a word or fyllable " for him y as knowing no accident could do harm to Virtue, " but rather help to make it Manifejt. After, Mr. Osborn, in the fecond Part of his Advice, to his Son, hath recommended an Univerfal... | |
 | British - 1762 - 414 pages
...give him ftrength, for greatnefs he could not want , neither could I condole in a word or fyllable for him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifeft." Archbifhop Archbifhop Williams, to whofc care the vifcount St. Albans, committed his orations... | |
 | Sir Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1787 - 158 pages
...ftrength } for Greatnefs he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or fyllable for him i as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, .but rather help to make it manifeft. There cannot be one colour of the mind, another of the wit. If the mind be flaid, grave,... | |
 | Ben Jonson, William Gifford - Dramatists, English - 1816 - 464 pages
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable for ' llorat. de Art. Poetic*. him, as knowing no accident could do harm to virtue, but rather help to... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 400 pages
...many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 398 pages
...many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over... | |
 | Henry Southern, Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas - Bibliography - 1821 - 402 pages
...many ages. In his adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over... | |
 | Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 pages
...adversity, I ever prayed that God would give him strength, for greatness he could not want. Neither eould I condole in a word or syllable for him, as knowing...harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest." The Advancement of Learning was, as Bacon well knew, likely to possess a temporary ascendancy over... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 430 pages
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...to virtue, but rather help to make it manifest*." Bacon appears to have fallen a victim to a rash exposure of himself to cold in the performance of a... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1822 - 434 pages
...many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed, that God would give him strength ; for greatness he could not want. Neither could I condole in a word or syllable...could do harm to virtue, but rather help to make it manifesta." Bacon appears to have fallen a victim to a rash exposure of himself to cold in the performance... | |
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But I have and do reverence him for the greatness that was only proper to himself, in that he seemed to me ever, by his work, one of the greatest men, and most worthy of admiration, that had been in many ages. In his adversity I ever prayed that God would... 
