 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience* of the same... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...whereof 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;...better than good dreams, except they be put in act; 8 Indignities for basenesses or meannesses. 9 " Since you are not what you were, there is no reason... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1881 - 250 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....little better than good dreams, except they be put in act."—Bacon, ' Essay of Great Place.' 1. " By this time the equipage of the strolling company was... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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....good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards 35 men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 570 pages
...whereof 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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - American literature - 1882 - 492 pages
...the latter is a curse; for, in evil, the best condition is not to will,1 the second not to cau.'J But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring;...that cannot be without power and place as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works are the end of man's motion, and conscience3 of the same... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 pages
...whereof 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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience \ of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1883 - 236 pages
...whereof 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;...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion; and conscience of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works are the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 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;...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works are the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same... | |
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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... 
