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" Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power... "
Horæ Solitariæ: Or, Essays Upon Some Remarkable Names and Titles of Jesus ... - Page 376
by Ambrose Serle - 1801
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Selections from the Works of Taylor, Latimer, Hall, Milton, Barrow, South ...

Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...sports and recreations. The most * Men in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...embaseth it. XI.— OF GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to' seek...
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Horae Solitariae: Or, Essays Upon Some Remarkable Names and Titles of Jesus ...

Ambrose Serle - Holy Spirit - 1842 - 730 pages
...Chancellor, declares, that " Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or ttatc, servants of fame, and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, either in their persont, in their actions, or in their timti. It is a strange desire to seek power, and to lose liberty...
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The Saturday Magazine, Volume 24

Periodicals - 1844 - 276 pages
...buildings to which thev may have access. MEV in great place are thrice servants; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power...
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Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 778 pages
...subjoin the greater part : — Men in great places are thrice servants — servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business ; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 1

Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...immortality. 82.— OF GREAT PLACE. BACON,' MEN in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business. So as they have no freedom, neither in their persons ; nor in their actions ; nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek...
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A Treatise on the Conduct of the Understanding

John Locke - Intellect - 1849 - 372 pages
...eorrupteth and embaseth it Of GREAT PLACE. MEN in great place are thrice servants servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business; so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...of business ; во as thly have no freedom, -neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor f $ $ Ü others, and to lose power over a man's self. The rising unto place is laborious, and by pains men...
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Cicero's three books of offices ... also his Cato major ... Lælius ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1850 - 364 pages
...makes the following observations : " Men in great place are thrice servants ; servants of the sovereign or state, servants of fame, and servants of business, so as they have no freedom neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek...
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Works, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...embaseth it. XI. OF GREAT PLACE. Men in great place are thrice servants: servants of the sovereign or state ; servants of fame ; and servants of business : so as they have no freedom, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek...
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