 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1858 - 792 pages
...end of aspiring. For good thoughts, (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better then good dreams : except they be put in Act ; and that...cannot be without power and place ; as the vantage & commanding ground. Merit is the ende of mans motion ; and conscience of merit is the accomplishment... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men, are little belter than good dreams : except they be put in act ; and...end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same, ia the accomplishment of man's rest. For if a man be partaker of God's theatre ; he shall likewise... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - Bible - 1859 - 360 pages
...literature on this coast. " To do good," says Lord Bacon, " is the true and lawful end of aspiring. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and...same is the accomplishment of man's rest ; for, if man can be a partaker of God's theater (or workshop,) he will be a partaker also of God's rest." It... | |
 | William Anderson Scott - Bible - 1859 - 360 pages
...literature on this coast. " To do good," says Lord Bacon, " is the true and lawful end of aspiring. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and...same is the accomplishment of man's rest ; for, if man can be a partaker of God's theater (or workshop,) he will be a partaker also of God's rest." It... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 468 pages
...end of aspiring. For good thoughts, (though God accept them) yet towards men are little better then good dreams : except they be put in Act ; and that...cannot be without power and place ; as the vantage & commanding ground. Merit is the ende of mans motion ; and conscience of merit is the accomplishment... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1864 - 638 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts, though God accept4 them, yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act, and that cannot be without liower and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion,... | |
 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...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...conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest. BACON. Essay : On Great Place. SONNET. MAEK when she smiles with amiable cheer, And tell me whereto... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...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...power and place as the vantage and commanding ground." * The Novum Organum by the Lord Verulam, Lord High Chancellor of England, magnificently dedicated to... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...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...act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as [10] the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...your Grace, like power divine, Hath look'd upon my passes." — Act V. Sc. 1. " For," says Bacon, " if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest ; " and again, that " men ought to look up to the eternal providence and divine judgment " : — "Miranda.... | |
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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... 
