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" Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart; the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of those things... "
Pantologia. A new (cabinet) cyclopædia, by J.M. Good, O. Gregory, and N ...
by John Mason Good - 1813
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Essays, Civil and Moral: And The New Atlantis

Francis Bacon - Education - 1909 - 374 pages
...time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart; the bestowing1" of a child, the finishing of a work, or the like....the care of those things will continue after him. So that_ajjjan hath, as it were, two lives in his desires. A man', hath a bo3y, and that body is confined...
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Francis Bacon: A Sketch of His Life, Works, and Literary Friends, Chiefly ...

George Walter Steeves - Philosophers - 1910 - 272 pages
...practical words in his essay on Friendship : " Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart ; the...the care of those things will continue after him." ; He had the happy satisfaction of possessing such friendships as enabled him to say that "no receipt...
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Friendship the Master-passion: Or, The Nature and History of Friendship, and ...

Henry Clay Trumbull - Friendship - 1912 - 424 pages
...time, and die many times in desire of some things which they principally take to heart," says Bacon ; " the bestowing of a child, the finishing of a work,...friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of these things will continue after him. So that a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires. A man...
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Alfred the Great, His Life and Times

George Frederick Bosworth - 1914 - 230 pages
...should continue, and, like a true statesman, he made provision for the future. Lord Bacon says : " If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of these things will continue after him." It was in this spirit that Alfred worked, that he might leave...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 806 pages
...for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some es by our venality. The lowest and highest of the...are sold : most of the intermediate arc also slaves, Ixxly, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices of life are as it...
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English Prose and Poetry (1137-1892)

John Matthews Manly - English literature - 1916 - 828 pages
...for that a friend is far more than himself. Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some alone? deskes. A man hath a body, and that body is confined to a place; but where friendship is, all offices...
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Anglia: Zeitschrift für englische Philologie, Volume 41

Comparative linguistics - 1917 - 722 pages
...but to that which they have most mind to (hier liegt ein "wollen" in dem fnturum). Ds. XXVII, 114. If a man have a true friend, he may rest almost secure that the care of these things will continue after him (hier soll die objektive gewifsheit stark betont werden). ß)...
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Law Sports at Gray's Inn (1594): Including Shakespeare's Connection with the ...

Basil Brown - Gesta Grayorum - 1921 - 398 pages
...attorney-general, which Bacon had so long hoped for. "Men have their time, and die many times in desire of some things, which they principally take to heart: the...of a child, the finishing of a work or the like." And truly at this period Bacon suffered the keenest anguish of mind. This Essay Of Friendship is so...
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The Life of Jameson, Volume 2

Ian Duncan Colvin - Jameson's Raid, 1895-1896 - 1922 - 392 pages
...And it was he who had put it in train. CHAPTER XXXIX THE UNION ' If a man have a true friend, he will rest almost secure that the care of those things will...a man hath, as it were, two lives in his desires.' — BACON. DR. JAMESON left Cape Town for England on April 15, 1908, with as usual a double end in...
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Prague Studies in English, Volume 8

English literature - 110 pages
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