 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1873 - 728 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... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 pages
...though I cannot accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to be spent, nor my course to get. Lastly I confess that I have...moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...Knowledge of Advancement in Life, set forth in a shape fit to come home to men's business and bosoms. I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil -ends: so Bacon wrote in his youth. In his later life he might, with as great or greater truth, have contrasted... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 pages
...meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my...contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers (whereof... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. I confess that I have vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...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,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan - 1881 - 366 pages
...1592) "the meanness of my [his] estate ; for though I can not accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get.1 This is the very year, 1592, in which Robert Greene "discovers that a new poet Las arisen who... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 pages
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...Knowledge of Advancement in Life, set forth in a shape fit to come home to men's business and bosoms. I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends : so Bacon wrote in his youth. In his later life he might, with as great or greater truth, have contrasted... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...parts of action are. I confess that * Basil Montagu, "Bacon's Works, with a New Life" (edit. 1825-34). I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for / have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of errors — whereof... | |
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