 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 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...commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of Hum's motion ; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of mans rest. For if a man can be partaker... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...end of man's motion; and conscience of the same, is the accomplishment of man's rest. For if a man be partaker of God's theatre; he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest." $ See page 103 of this volume. Unmindful of the feebleness of his constitution ; unmindful of his love... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 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...works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience o'' the same is the accomplishment of man's rest : for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he... | |
 | 430 pages
...motion ; and conscience of the same, is the accomplishment of man's rest ; ' for if a man can be a partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest." The lowest incentive, and the least (though it seem not so), is self-love. He who labours from this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men are AkBkCk nEkFkOn o o oKkLkMkNkOkPkikjk mTkUkVkWkak k mdkek]k^k_k`k o o o o oPogkhk o o olkmknk With these prospects before him, he could not be so weak as hastily to abandon them, by yielding to... | |
 | William Henry Trescot - 1852 - 188 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thoughts (though God accepts them) yet towards man are little better than good dreams, except they be put...theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest."* * Lord Bacon. CHAPTER V. CONCLUSION. FROM the famous Declaration of July 4th, 1776, the final independence... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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...is the accomplishment of man's rest. For if a man be partaker of God's theatre ; he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest." $ See page 163 of this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 394 pages
...God accept them,) yet towards men, are little better than good Dreams ; except they be put in Adt ; and that cannot be without Power, and Place ; as the...Merit and good Works, is the End of Man's Motion ; and Confcience of the fame is the Accomplimment of Man's Reft. For if a Man can be Partaker of God's Theatre,... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pages
...true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards men they are little better than good dreams, except they be put...power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Bacon. We are all here fellow-servants, and we know not how our Grand Master will brook insolences... | |
 | Sir Thomas Duffus Hardy - 1852 - 502 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.' Again, in a private letter he wrote to the King on the publication of his ' Nov. Org.' he says. ' To... | |
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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... 
