 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pagina’s
...relation, Lord Treasurer Burleigh — " I confess, that I have as * Dr. Rawley, Life of Bacon. 428745 " vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil...be my ; " province ; and if I could purge it of two sojts " of rovers, whereof thejjne with frivolous dispu: " tations, confutations, and verbosities ;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pagina’s
...prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that 1 have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate...civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ," and if 1 could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pagina’s
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pagina’s
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pagina’s
...cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken nil knowledge to be my province, and — if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 pagina’s
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as 1 have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if 1 could purge... | |
 | 1837 - 608 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | 1838 - 870 pagina’s
...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 - 1840 - 516 pagina’s
...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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1841 - 616 pagina’s
...accuse myself, that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet, my health is not to spend, nor my course we br providence;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
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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... 
