 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
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849
...science. When young, like Milton, he felt that he was destined for great things. "I confess," said he, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends." We cannot but regret that his lot was cast in such a mould that his own magnificent conceptions were... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850
...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...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 - 1850
...employ whatsoever I am, to do you eervice. Again the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me i men, seeing there was no danger of our utter perdition...going abroad and seeing what was to be seen in the 1 confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1850
...pursue it. "I confess," said he in a letter Mucaulay, Essays. Ill, 10 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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851
...more painful than most parts of action are Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either...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... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851
...more painful than most parts of action are Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either...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 - 1852
...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...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... | |
 | 1852
...one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " al distinctions. The difference between the greatest and meanest of ma Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 408 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 - 1854
...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...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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