 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 284 pages
...TREMAINE. 'RR My free drift Haiti not particularly, but move* itself , In a wide tea of wax. Staktfeare. Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...them,) yet, towards men, are little better than good dreamt, they be put in act: and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage aiid commanding... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 340 pages
...TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax. SlIAKSPEABK. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring:...accept them), yet, towards men, are little better than goo.l dreams, except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 268 pages
...TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but mores itself In a wide sea of wax. Shakspearc. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring: for good thoughts Cthough God accept them,) yet, towards men, are little better than good tlreams, except they be put... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 336 pages
...TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax. SllAKSPBARR. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring: for good thought! (though God accept them), yet, towards men, are little better than good dreams, except they... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...THE AUTHOR OF TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax. Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thought* (though God accept them), yet, towards men, are little better than good dreamt, except they... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 400 pages
...TREMA1NE. My free drift HaUd not particularly, but moves itself In a wide sea of wax. S,tAKSPRAaK. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good Jtoughts (though God accept them), yet, towards men, are little better tlian good dreams- except they... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - Imaginary conversations - 1829 - 570 pages
...and Pericles might have acted on it, " is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts (tho God accept them) yet towards men are little better...and place, as the vantage and commanding ground." And again, " Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherin and how they have degenerated!... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...fbr good thoughts (though Got1 accept them), yet, towards men, are little better than good dreanu. except they be put in act: and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding groimd.—Bacon. IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. I. © NEW-YORK: PRIfTTED AND PUBLISHED BY J. Sr J. HARPER, NO.... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1831 - 372 pages
...thwigbts (though God accept them), yet, towards.men, are little better than good dreams, except 1hey be put in act: and that cannot be without power and place, as tiw vantage and commanding ground.—Bacon, IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. NEW-YORK: PRlflTED AfTD PUBLISHED... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1833 - 228 pages
...the latter is a curse : for in evil the best condition is not to will ; the second not to can. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience oe t-he same is the accomplishment of man's rest : for if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he... | |
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But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring : for good thoughts (though God accept them, yet) towards men are little better than good dreams except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding... 
