 life and actions; such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass to attain. For if these two things be supposed, that a man set before him honest and good ends, and again that his mind be resolute and constant to pursue and obtain them, it will...  Works of Francis Bacon - Page 226by Francis Bacon - 1864Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 494 pages
...estate; which is the electing and propounding unto a man's self good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass...set before him honest and good ends, and again that he be resolute, constant, and true unto them, it will follow that he shall mould himself into all virtue... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 500 pages
...estate; which is the electing and propounding unto a man's self good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass...set before him honest and good ends, and again that he be resolute, constant, and true unto them, it will follow that he shall mould himself into all virtue... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 506 pages
...estate; which is the electing and propounding unto a man's self good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass...set before him honest and good ends, and again that he be resolute, constant, and true unto them, it will follow that he shall mould himself into all virtue... | |
 | Ethics - 1907 - 574 pages
...illustrated by one of those beautiful comparisons which illuminate so many of his pages. "If," he says, "these two things be supposed, that a man set before him honest and good ends, and again that he be resolute, constant and true unto them; it will follow that he shall mould himself into all virtue... | |
 | J. C. Davis - History - 1983 - 444 pages
...towards this end were 'the electing and propounding unto a man's self good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass to attain'. Finally, when it came to civil knowledge, Bacon declared that a knowledge of the means of moving men... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...estate; which is the electing and propounding unto a man's self good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass...set before him honest and good ends, and again that he be resolute, constant, and true” unto them, it will follow that he shall mould himself into all... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...; which is, the electing and propounding unto a man's self 126 good and virtuous ends of his life, such as may be in a reasonable sort within his compass...set before him honest and good ends, and again that he bo resolute, constant, and true unto them ; it will follow, that he shall mould himself into all... | |
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