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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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Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1850 - 368 pages
...ferrvants of business, so us they have no freedom neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire to seek power and lose liberty, or to seek power over others nnd to lose power over a rnan'd self. The rising unto place...
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The Lives of the Lords Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England ...

John Campbell Baron Campbell - Great Britain - 1851 - 504 pages
...by him while a student in Gary's Inn :—" Men in great place are thrice 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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Lands of the Free: Historical Broadcast Series of the NBC Inter-American ...

NBC University of the Air - America - 1852 - 534 pages
...HERTFORD, AFTERWARDS DUKE OF SOMERSET. " Men in great place arc 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 " time.." LORD BATON, Essay on Great Place....
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...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 World's Laconics: Or, The Best Thoughts of the Best Authors

Tryon Edwards - Quotations, English - 1853 - 442 pages
...humility.— rLavater. GREAT MEN. — 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. — Lord Bacon. GREATNESS. —...
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The essays; or, Counsels civil and moral with A table of the colours of good ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 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 power...
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Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...embaseth it. XI. OF GREAT PLACE. Men in great place are thrice servants : servants of the sovereign that ever reigned, who have oftentimes joined to themselves some of their servants, neither in their persons, nor in their actions, nor in their times. It is a strange desire, to seek...
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Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1855 - 376 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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Cicero's Three Books of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an ...

Marcus Tullius Cicero - Ethics - 1855 - 374 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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The Essays: Or, Counsels, Civil and Moral ; and The Wisdom of the Ancients

Francis Bacon - English essays - 1856 - 406 pages
...embaseth it. XI.— OF GREAT PLACE. 1 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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