 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - 638 pagina’s
...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,...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 frivilous disputations,... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pagina’s
...he wrote in 1591 to his uncle Burghley, seeking his kindly aid towards his advancement : " Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends,...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 600 pagina’s
...prodigal, or sloathfull, yet •my Health is not to spend, nor my Course to pet. Lastly, I confesse, that I have as, vast 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 sort of Rovers, whereof... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1895 - 934 pagina’s
...one time, resolved to pursue it. "I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " " Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1895 - 714 pagina’s
...not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess thattl have as vast contemplative ends, as 1 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 witr frivolous disputations,... | |
 | 1896 - 516 pagina’s
...of the work to the benefit of all, not sparing himself or regarding private advantage or profit. " I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends," he declared; "for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. This— whether it be curiosity or... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897 - 726 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... | |
 | Bertha Marian Skeat - 1897 - 676 pagina’s
...not to be spent, nor my course to get. Lastly I confess that I have äs vast contemplative ends, äs I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to my province; and if I could pnrge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivoloua disputations... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 540 pagina’s
...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...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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1898 - 700 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... | |
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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; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities;... 
