 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1905 - 770 pages
...incut/at, qui notiis nimis omnibus, ignotus morilur sibi.1 In place there is license to do good or evil, whereof the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition is not to •will,8 the second not to can.9 But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for... | |
 | William Henry Williams - 1905 - 600 pages
...50. cannot. For this absolute use of can, 'to be able,' 'to have power to do,' cf. Bacon, Essay xi, ' In evil the best condition is not to will, the second not to can.' 52. reave: destroy. OE. reafian, to rob, ravage, destroy. Cf. Shakespeare, Venus and Adonis, 766, '... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 512 pages
...rarely, in Sh. of this, the original meaning of ' can." CLARENDON : Compare Bacon, Essay xi, p. 40 : ' In evil the best condition is not to will, the second not to can.' 89. topp'd] DYCE (Gloss.): To rise above, to surpass. See Macb. IV, iii, 57; Lear, I, ii, 21. 90. forgery]... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1905 - 532 pages
...rarely, in Sh. of this, the original meaning of ' can." CLARENDON : Compare Bacon, Essay *i, p. 40: 'In evil the best condition is not to will, the second not to can." 89. topp'd] DYCE (Glass.): To rise above, to surpass. See Macb. IV, iii, 57, Lear, I, ii, 21. 90. forgery]... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1906 - 764 pages
...gravis incubat, qui notits nimis omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.1 In place there is license to do good or evil, whereof the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition is not to will,8 the second not to can.9 But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good... | |
 | Titus Lucretius Carus - 1907 - 836 pages
...animantium vita teneatur.' 586. queant: it is unnecessary, as Kelsey remarks, to supply faceré. Bacon, 'the best condition is not to will, the second not to can.' — foedera naturai: there is law in nature, and this law has the character of a compact ; both principles... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 412 pages
...And totter on in business to the last." Pope. Epistle I. 11. 22S-Z29. omnibus, ignotus moritur sibi.1 In place there is license to do good and evil ; whereof...best condition is not to will ; the second not to can.2 But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though <3bd accept... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1909 - 146 pages
...obsolete, meaning to have pouter; not as an auxiliary verb, modifying another understood. Cf. Bacon: "In evil the best condition is, not to will; the second, not to can." — Essay of Great Place. Mir. Heavens thank you for't ! And now, I pray you, sir, For still 'tis beating... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1909 - 364 pages
...die too well known to everybody else, and still unknown to himself]. In place there is Iicense=»to do good and evil; whereof the latter is a curse: for in .iiil the best condition is not to will ; the second, not to can?' But power to do good is the true... | |
 | Annie Barnett, Lucy Dale - 1912 - 268 pages
...sibi." In Place there is License to doe Good and Evill ; whereof the latter is a Curse ; for in Evill, the best condition is not to will, the Second not to Can. But Power to doe good is the true and lawfull End of Aspiring ; for good Thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards... | |
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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,... 
