 Learning, that of Henry VII., that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not. For these modern languages will, at one time or other, play the bankrupt with books...  Letters - Pagina 254door Francis Bacon - 1850Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Thomas Ebenezer Webb - 1902 - 350 pagina’s
...baser metal into silver, and made it current. ' These modern languages,' he wrote to Matthew in 1623, ' will, at one time or other, play the bankrupts with...shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity.' Accordingly, in hot haste, he procured his Advancement, his Essays, his Henry the Seventh, and portions... | |
 | 1902 - 940 pagina’s
...labours are now most set to have those works which I had formerly published., well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will at one time or other play the bank-rovvtes with books; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God shall... | |
 | Stephen Lucius Gwynn - 1904 - 452 pagina’s
...and in the same year appeared a Latin translation made under his supervision ; Bacon holding that " these modern languages will at one time or other play the bankrupts with books." The English edition is dedicated to the Duke of Buckingham, and Bacon, or rather Lord St. Albans, was... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 410 pagina’s
...labour is now most set to have those works which I had formerly published well translated into Latin, for these modern languages will at one time or other play the bankrupt with books, and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad, as God would give... | |
 | Arnold Harris Mathew, Annette Calthrop - 1907 - 422 pagina’s
...pens, which forsake me not, for these modern languages will, at one time or another, play the bankrupt with books ; and since I have lost much time with...shall give me leave, to recover it, with posterity. " In the Essay of Friendship, while I took your speech of it for a cursory request, I took my promise... | |
 | Felix Emmanuel Schelling - 1910 - 512 pagina’s
...of Henry VII, that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity. Bacon was, in all probability, insensible of the glorious wealth of literature that was springing up... | |
 | Samuel Chester Parker - 1912 - 540 pagina’s
...perish; for, h'e said, "These modern languages will at one time or another play the bank-route [bankrupt] with books, and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad if God would give me leave to recover it with posterity." Speaking of the translation of the " Advancement... | |
 | George Philip Krapp - 1915 - 578 pagina’s
...of Henry 7th, that of the Essays, being retractate and made more perfect, well translated into Latin by the help of some good pens which forsake me not....modern languages will at one time or other play the bank-rowtes with books ; and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad as God shall... | |
 | John William Adamson - 1921 - 320 pagina’s
...For these modern languages," he wrote to a friend, "will at one time or another play the bank-rowte with books, and since I have lost much time with this age, I would be glad if God would give me leave to recover it with posterity1." Ratke, on the contrary, shows full confidence... | |
 | Edward Walter Smithson - 1922 - 242 pagina’s
...to an intimate friend contains this passage : " For these modern languages will play the bankrowtes with books ; and since I have lost much time with...shall give me leave, to recover it with posterity." " Play the bank-rowtes " means, I suppose, put a stop to the currency ; and " lost much time with this... | |
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