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" I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province... "
Writings historical. Letters - Page 207
by Francis Bacon - 1819
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...relation, Lord Treasurer Burleigh — " I confess, that I have as * Dr. Rawley, Life of Bacon. 428745 " vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil...be my ; " province ; and if I could purge it of two sojts " of rovers, whereof thejjne with frivolous dispu: " tations, confutations, and verbosities ;...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that 1 have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate...civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ," and if 1 could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: Letters from the ...

Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 12

Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,...
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Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 14

William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pages
...cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken nil knowledge to be my province, and — if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pages
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as 1 have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if 1 could purge...
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The Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal, Volume 65

1837 - 608 pages
...one time, resolved to pursue it. ' I confess,' said he in a letter written when he was still young, ' that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have • moderate civil ends.' Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua...
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Southern Literary Messenger, Volume 4

1838 - 870 pages
...one time, resolved to pursue it. 'I confess,' said he in a letter written when he was still young, 'that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends.' Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua...
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Critical and Miscellaneous Essays, Volume 2

Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1840 - 516 pages
...one time, resolved to pursue it. ' I confess,' said he in a letter written when he was still young, ' that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends.' Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua...
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Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pages
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet, my health is not to spend, nor my course we br providence;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,...
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