 Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities;...  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - 28 psl.redagavo - 1847Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
 | Robert Andrews - 1997 - 666 psl.
...(1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman. Religious Meditations, "Of Heresies" (1 597). 7 I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. FRANCIS BACON, (1561-1626) British philosopher, essayist, statesman.... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 psl.
...Burghley - Bacon's uncle and Elizabeth I's Lord Treasurer - he described the scale of his ambitions: 'I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province' (Bacon (1996), p. 20). The famous frontispiece to the 1620 Novum Organum... | |
 | Marjorie Swann - 2001 - 300 psl.
...Burghley in 1592. Still shown no favor by Elizabeth, Bacon attempted to spur his uncle to help him: I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Will Durant - 2002 - 351 psl.
...is a great deal of sand in the hourglass. . . . The meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me. ... I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. . . . This, whether it be curiosity, or vainglory, or nature ... is... | |
 | Stephen Gaukroger - 2001 - 270 psl.
...have included figures such as Edward Kelley and John Dee. Bacon wrote to Lord Burghley in that year: I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 psl.
...employ whatsoever I am to do you service. Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move0 me: for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either...slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get.0 Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 2002 - 412 psl.
...of action are. I confess that * Basil Montagu, "Bacon's Works, with a IjTew Life" (edit. 1825-34), I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of errors — whereof the one... | |
 | Amélie Oksenberg Rorty - 2003 - 544 psl.
...his own master, let him (if he will) use his own judgment. Letter to My Treasurer Burghley (1592) ... I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Peter Dawkins - 2004 - 159 psl.
...Francis Bacon, Letter to Burghley (1593), published in William Rawley's Resusctiatio, Supplement, p. 95: Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge as my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Alasdair A. MacDonald, A. H. Huussen - 2004 - 246 psl.
...advancement of learning. Already in his famous 1592 letter to his uncle, Lord Burghley, Bacon wrote: Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
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