 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 páginas
...soliciting more influence in the State. " Your Majesty hath lost a great servant and a great subject. But if I should praise him in propriety, I should...he was a fit man to keep things from growing worse, hut no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have all the eyes of Israel... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 páginas
...which he credits his cousin, the Earl of Salisbury, when he is writing about him after his death: ' If I should praise him in propriety I should say that...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better.' Letters and Life, iv. 279, and note on page 278. Of the living Earl he speaks in very... | |
 | John Morley - 1894 - 656 páginas
...draft breaks off abruptly, and with the date of the 31st we have the following: " Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and a great servant. But if I...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1895 - 714 páginas
...the date of the 31st we have the following :— "Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and agréât servant. But if I should praise him in propriety,...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
 | John Courtenay James - 1900 - 332 páginas
...polity. Lord Bacon, speaking of Robert Cecil, the Earl of Salisbury of his day, said he was a most fit man to keep things from growing worse, but no very fit man to induce things to be much better. This is a fair statement of what is termed " conservatism." But it... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1902 - 236 páginas
...draft breaks off abruptly, and with the date of the 31st we have the following: " Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and a great servant. But if I...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
 | John Lingard - 1902 - 584 páginas
...equally descended Feb. 10. fromHenry VII., through Mary, the sister of Margaret. * " Your majesty hath lost a great subject and a great servant. " But, if...should praise him in propriety, I should say that be was " a more fit man to keep things from getting worse, but no very fit " man to reduce things to... | |
 | George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1914 - 376 páginas
...Bacon for his opinion of Salisbury, he replied :— " Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and a good servant. But if I should praise him in propriety,...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
 | George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1914 - 380 páginas
...Bacon for his opinion of Salisbury, he replied :— " Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and a good servant. But if I should praise him in propriety,...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
 | George Ravenscroft Dennis - 1914 - 376 páginas
...Bacon for his opinion of Salisbury, he replied :— " Your Majesty hath lost a great subject and a good servant. But if I should praise him in propriety,...worse, but no very fit man to reduce things to be much better. For he loved to have the eyes of all Israel a little too much upon himself, and to have... | |
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lost a great subject and a great servant. But if I should praise him in propriety, I should say, that he was a fit man to keep things from growing worse; but no very fit man to reduce things to be 
