 Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of...  The Maxims of Francis Guicciardini - Page 10by Francesco Guicciardini - 1845 - 158 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 pages
...in his Essays, - the affecting of the 'teal of nun, which is what the Grecians call Philanthropeia This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the...wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin." Lord Bacon was right. Confessing the attraction's of Scholarship, awed by the majesty of the Law, fascinated... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...Grecians call Philanthropia ; and the word humanity (as it is ' used) is a little too light to express it. 6 6 q r oT all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity : and without... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1852 - 108 pages
...Grecians call Philanthropia ; and the word humanity (as it is used), is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature...wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin." — Bacon't Essays. existed among the former or exists among the latter ? In the one place, Aristotle,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...little too light to express it./ Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. 5 This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the...mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error. The desire of power... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...Humanity (as it is ufed) is a little too light to exprefs it. Goodnefs I call the Habit, and Goodnefs of Nature the Inclination. This of all Virtues, and Dignities of the Mind, is the greateft ; being the Character of the Deity : and without it, Man is a Bufy, Mifchievous, Wretched... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1853 - 176 pages
...Grecians call Philanthropia ; and the word humanity (as it is used) is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature...mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess but error. The desire of power... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...Grecians called philanthropia ; and the word humanity, as it is used, is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature...This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the great* est, being the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - 1854 - 444 pages
...trno, As you'd have others be to you ; And neither do nor say to men Whaie'er you would not take again. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is...the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and with'ont it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. — Lord lincon.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 pages
...Grecians call philanthropia ; and the word humanity, as it is used, is a little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature...and without it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched tiling, no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1856 - 736 pages
...of men, which is what the Grecians call Philanthropeia — of all virtues and dignities of the mind the greatest, being the character of the Deity; and...wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin." Lord Bacon was right, and, perhaps, unconsciously followed a higher authority; for, when Moses asked... | |
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