 | Elegant epistles - 1812 - 316 strani
...receive new vigour between us. My lord chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom : it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | Johann Gottfried Herder - 1820 - 782 strani
...— Lord Chancellor Bacon, says Ho well in his letters, is lately dead of a long languish illness. He died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which did a rgneto great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties of a wise man to provide... | |
 | 1821 - 408 strani
...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | 1821 - 404 strani
...money, for its own sake. " My Lord Chancellor Ba.con is lately dead of a long languishing weakness; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | John Randolph - 1834 - 422 strani
...immediately on his arrival. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead, of a long and languishing weakness. He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom — it being one of the properties of a... | |
 | Charles MacFarlane - 1836 - 340 strani
...BACON, BY A CONTEMPORARY. My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a long languishing weakness : he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 strani
...his lordship's secretary, afterwards clerk of the king's privy-council. Howell quaintly remarks, " He died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | 1841 - 500 strani
...Howell writes to Dr. Prichard, " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor, that he scarce left money to bury him ; which though he had a great wit, did argue no great wisdom, it being one of the essential properties... | |
 | 1845 - 648 strani
...character of the great philosopher. " My Lord Chancellor Bacon is lately dead of a languishing weakness ; he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him, which, though he had a great wit, did argue no wisdom ; it being one of the essential properties of... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 544 strani
...Authors differ in their accounts of Bacon's pecuniary means in the last years of his life. Howell says he died so poor that he scarce left money to bury him. Wilson, the historian, confirms this account, and adds that Lord Brook denied him beer to quench his... | |
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... he had a great Wit, did argue no great Wisdom; it being one of the essential Properties of a wise Man, to provide for the main chance. 
