 | Ernst Kuno B. Fischer - 1857
...probably, from selfish motives, did not assist him in his political career. He writes in the year 1591 : "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends...moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence (province ?) ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Kuno Fischer - 1857 - عدد الصفحات: 508
...probably, from selfish motives, did not assist him in his political career. He writes in the year 1591 : "I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends...moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence (province ?) : and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857
...afterwards altered, his petitions do not seem at this time to aim at any active legal place ; for he says, " I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as...moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." His suit not receiving so much encouragement from his uncle as he hoped, he applied... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1857
...though 1 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, I as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken I'll knowledge to be my providence;* and if I could... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1858 - عدد الصفحات: 744
...time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, *• any obtained — not for their eraf /Dyers, but for Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859
...though I 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 1 have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to he my province ; and if I could purge... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1897
...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 - 1860
...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 - 1861
...Kawley's ' Kcsuscitutio,' Supplement, p. 95. either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that 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,... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1861 - عدد الصفحات: 451
...though I 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...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,... | |
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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;... 
