 | Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...terminations.] i . Т о be able ; <o have power. In place there is licence to do gopd and evil, whereof tlie latter is a curse : for, in evil, the best condition is, not to will; the second, not to can. Macón. О, there's the wonder ! Mecacnas and Agrippa, who can most With Caesar, are his foes. DryJtn.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...unknown to himself: (ie without having studied and known his own character.") In place, there is licence to do good and evil, whereof the latter is a curse...not to can : but power to do good, is the true and awful end of aspiring: for good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are E little better... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1818 - 312 pages
...unknown to himself: (ie without having studied and known his own character.") In place, there is licence to do good and evil, whereof the latter is a curse...not to can : but power to do good, is the true and awful end of aspiring: for good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 580 pages
...Illi mors gravis incubat, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi. In place there is licence to do good and evil ; whereof the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition i* not to will ; the second not to can. But power todo good is the true and lawful end of aspiring.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1820 - 548 pages
...either of body or mind: "Illi mors gravis incubat, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi." In place there is license to do good and evil; whereof...not to will; the second not to can. But power to do &4 good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards... | |
 | Thomas Curtis - 1829 - 809 pages
...to study houshold good, And good works in her husband to promote. Hilton. In place there is licence s Curtis Bacon. O, there's the wonder ! Mecenas and Agrippa, who can most With Cisir, are his foes. Dryden.... | |
 | Encyclopaedia - 1845 - 840 pages
...truth subdue avenging wrong. 1<!. Faerie Queene, book i. can. 3. St. 6. In place, there is licence to do good and evil, whereof the latter is a curse...best condition is not to will, the second not to can. Bacon. Essays, Of Great Place, xi. It is a contradiction to imagine that Omnipotence can do that, which... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 pages
...ignotus moritur sibi *. In place, there is licence to do good and evil ; whereof the latter is a ourse ; for in evil the best condition is not to will ; the second, not to care. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...either of body or mind : " I1H mors gravis incubât, qui notus nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sihi." $ $ $F $ $ $M$ !< = $ $ % % : _. lor in evil the bejLcondition is not to will ; the . ' second not to canjBut power to do good... | |
 | Eduard Fiedler - 1850 - 768 pages
...should pervert or conceal truth (War.) ; talent of loilling what all the world wills (C. Fred. 3. 291); in evil the best condition, is not to will, the second not to can (Ba.) ; to will is present with me (Romans 7. 18). Auch hier bleibt der Infinitiv oft aus; schon L.... | |
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In place there is license to do good and evil, whereof the latter is a curse ; for in evil, the best condition is not to will, the second not to can. 1 But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts, though God accept them,... 
