 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
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845
...painful than most parts of action are. . . . Again, the meaness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either...prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend CHAP. nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast _ contemplative ends as I have moderate... | |
 | Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1846
...one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends." Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1846 - 758 psl.
...one time, resolved to pursue it. "I confess," said ne in a letter written when he was still young, ay Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847
...meaness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either progidal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my...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... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847
...the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me; for though I cannot acense myself that I am cither prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend...course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplativo ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have token all knowledge to he my province,... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 322 psl.
...time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he, in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends." Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848
...employ whatsoever I am, to do you service, Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me: for though I cannot accuse myself, that I am either...health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, ] confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857
...afterwards altered, his petitions do not seem at this time to aim at any active legal place ; for he says, " 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." His suit not receiving so much encouragement from his uncle as he... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848
...meanness of my estate doth somewhat BL.-I* me : for though I cannot accuse myself, that I am euber prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my c^arx to get. Lastly, 1 confess that I have a> vast coati iii***nv» ends as I have moderate civil... | |
 | 1867
...LORD BACON (3 rd S. xi. 490.) " Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for tho 1 I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or...my health is not to spend, nor my course to get." D. will excuse me for remarking that those who ask a question respecting a difficult passage ought... | |
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