 | Charles Francis Adams - 1873 - 32 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...power and place as the vantage and commanding ground." I should, however, venture to question the exclusive feature of the condition. I agree that power and... | |
 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - 1873 - 424 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...and that cannot be without power and place as the vantage-ground." — BACON. there is not, and though it is strongly disputed that there ever had been,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1874 - 700 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts, though God accept 4 them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest: ' Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera, quae fecerunt manus suae, vidit quod omuia essent bona nimis;"... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...of aspiring; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better then • good dreams, except they be put in act, and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage 2 ' and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience 22 of the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...retirement. 2 " Death presses heavily upon him who, too well known to all others, dies unknown to bimself." and that cannot be without power and place, as the...good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience 8 of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest ; for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre,... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - 1876 - 768 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage or commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...sleek courtier, because the new knowledge was to be thought put in WUj.it Uucou luas himself xxvii act ; and that cannot be without power and place as the vantage and commanding ground. Circumstances combined with the suggestions of his philosophy to divert Bacon from a contemplative... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 562 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act ; and that can not be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground." And again, " Reduce things... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest. " Et conversus Deus, ut aspiceret opera, quae fecerunt manus suae, vidit quod omnia essent bona nimis... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1878 - 790 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put...and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's'rest. For if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest,... | |
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But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding... 
