 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
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 psl.
...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...contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers (whereof... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 psl.
...Burleigh, his uncle, in these remarkable words : " The meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me ; for though I cannot accuse myself that I am either...yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. I confess that I have vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1881 - 386 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 - 1881 - 292 psl.
...Knowledge of Advancement in Life, set forth in a shape fit to come home to men's business and bosoms. I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends : so Bacon wrote in his youth. In his later life he might, with as great or greater truth, have contrasted... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 psl.
...parts of action are. I confess that * Basil Montagu, "Bacon's Works, with a New Life" (edit. 1825-34). I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for / have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of errors — whereof... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 252 psl.
...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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 psl.
...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... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 psl.
...one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " Had bis civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, •.-.it only the Hones, but the Joshua... | |
 | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - 1887 - 312 psl.
...realize the crushed and humble spirit of that towering mind, which, as he writes to his uncle, had " as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." They could see only " meanness and servility" in that remarkable... | |
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