 And that learning should take up too much time or leisure ; I answer, the most active or busy man that hath been or can be, hath (no question) many vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business (except he be either tedious...  Character of Lord Bacon: His Life and Works - Side 104af Thomas Martin - 1835 - 367 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | James Hastings - 2004 - 344 sider
...for* (1 Co 16" RV ' expect,' He 11"). Cf. Bacon, Adv. of Learning, i. (Selby's ed. p. 14, 1. 35), ' The most active or busy man that hath been or can...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business.' Expectation is used throughout in the sense of looking forward to with hope. Thus even in Ps 62* '... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 sider
...indefatigable, if it be towards any business that can detain their minds. The most active or busy men that hath been or can be, hath, no question, many...while he expecteth the tides and returns of business. And then the question is, but how those spaces and times of leisure shall be filled and spent; whether... | |
 | 1845 - 778 sider
...given by Lord Bacon, — who justly asserts, that the most active or busy man who ever lived must have many " vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business." How are these intervals to be employed? They must be used in some way or other. You may divert the... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1845 - 792 sider
...given by Lord Bacon, — who justly asserts, that the most active or busy man who ever lived must have many " vacant times of leisure, while he expecteth the tides and returns of business." How are these intervals to be employed? They must be used in some way or other. You may divert the... | |
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