 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
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 psl.
...employ whatsoever I am to do your 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... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 548 psl.
...which constituted his deeper life. In a letter written at the outset of his career, he says proudly, " 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." The " Novum Organum " and the " Advancement of Learning." — His... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 psl.
...knowledge which increases man's empire over the earth. At thirty years old he wrote to Burleigh, " I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Little by little, he elaborated the doctrine which he formulated... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 psl.
...the knowledge which increases man's empire over the earth. At thirty years old he wrote to Burleigh, "I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Little by little, he elaborated the doctrine which he formulated... | |
 | Amelia Defries - 1928 - 212 psl.
...her worthy of his service ! In this famous letter he assures his uncle of small worldly ambitions. " I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends," he writes ; " for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Here he shows the dream of boyhood... | |
 | 1994 - 412 psl.
...first always held the highest place in his thoughts. " I confess," he wrote to Burghley about 1 592, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province1." This greatness of design was characteristic of the mind of the period... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 psl.
...ambition: for the vita activa in service to the queen and to England, and for the vita contemplativa. "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." When Bacon wrote to his uncle, he already had served eight years... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 psl.
...he obtained in due course from King James VI and I. In 1592 he had written to his uncle, Burleigh: 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 would purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Tim D. Davis, Bruce E. Haissig - 1994 - 370 psl.
...Cambridge, he developed a dislike for Aristotle's philosophy; he also formed notable personal aspirations: "I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge as my province...." (Hutchins 1953, p. v). Bacon's career included philosophy, science,... | |
 | William T. Smedley - 1996 - 220 psl.
...and contains the following : — " I cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, vet my health is not to spend nor my course to get. Lastly,...confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have 0 Cott. MSS. Tit. CX. 93. t M Life and Letters," Vol. I., p. no. moderate civil ends : for I have taken... | |
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