 Besides my innumerable sins, I confess before thee, that I am debtor to thee for the gracious talent of thy gifts and graces, which I have neither put into a napkin, nor put it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent...  The British Essayists: The Tatler - الصفحة 205بواسطة Alexander Chalmers - 1803عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful into me (O Lord) for my Saviour's sake, and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. FROM THE ' APOPHTHEGMS ' MY Lo. of Essex, at the succor of Rhoan, made twenty-four knights, which... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 542
...it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit ; so I may truly say, my soul...and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. In this penitential Prayer or Psalm, meant for no human eye or ear, Bacon ignored to the Heavenly... | |
 | John Caird - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 416
...might have made best profit," but had " misspent in things for which he was least fit, so that he might truly say, ' My soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage.'" Yet, it may be questioned whether in so writing Bacon judged himself truly or from a correct estimate... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit ; so I may truly say, my soul hath u— - - Granger in the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, O Lord, for my Saviour's sake,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...might have made best profit. but misspent It In things for which I was least fit; so I may truly »ay. my soul hath been a stranger In the course of my pilgrimage....and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me In thy ways." When we admire the vast plans of this great architect, and contrast the magnificent design with... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1899 - عدد الصفحات: 1172
...It. as I ou^ht. to exchangers, where It might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit; so I may truly say. my soul...the course of my pilgrimage. Be merciful unto me, 0 Lord, for my Saviour's sake, and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me In thy ways." When wo admire... | |
 | 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 698
...succinct and striking is this: "I have misspent my life in things for which I was least fit ; so, as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." This is very different from Shakespeare's dissatisfaction at the histrionic display of his own personality.... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - عدد الصفحات: 468
...— Letter to Bodley (1605). " I have mis-spent [my life] in things for which I was least fit; so as I may truly say, my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." — Bacon's Prayer (1621). Here is a double confession, that the pursuits of a whole lifetime had been... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 534
...it, as I ought, to exchangers, where it might have made best profit, but misspent it in things for which I was least fit ; so I may truly say, my soul...and receive me unto thy bosom, or guide me in thy ways. In this penitential Prayer or Psalm, meant for no human eye or ear, Bacon ignored to the Heavenly... | |
 | Walter Begley - 1903 - عدد الصفحات: 418
...— multum fuit incola anima mea — or, as he paraphrased it in his last Prayer and Confession, " I may truly say my soul hath been a stranger in the course of my pilgrimage." That was his frequent cry. Bacon, like Milton, was not ignorant of his own parts ; he knew better than... | |
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