 | George Dyer - 1814 - 394 pages
...taken," says he, in a letter to lord treasurer Burleigh, " all knowledge for my province, and if I purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof, the one...frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils,... | |
 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pages
...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...frivolous disputations, confutations and verbosities, the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pages
...either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my couvse to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate...disputations, confutations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 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...frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pages
...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...frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities; the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...digal 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...disputations, confutations, and verbosities : the other with blind experiments and auricular traditions, and impostures, hath committed so many spoils;... | |
 | 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 ;... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...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 all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pages
...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 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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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 ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities,... 
