 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1823 - 836 pages
...been mid on the abolition of Slavery in Indostan, but much remains to be done; " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...act, and that cannot be without power and place." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to exert your powerful influence with the African... | |
 | Asia - 1823 - 678 pages
...been mid on the abolition of Slavery in Hindostan, but much remains to be done : " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...act, and that cannot be without power and place." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to eiert your powerful influence with the African... | |
 | 1823 - 836 pages
...been ttid on the abolition of Slavery in Indostan, but much remains to be done; " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...be put in act, and that cannot be without power and pkce." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to exert your powerfill influence with the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 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 - 1834 - 784 pages
...and promote merit, according to his maxim and in the spirit of his own words "detur digniori."(«) " Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring;...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground." With these prospects before him he could not be so weak as hastily to abandon... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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 ^orks is the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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...act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as t he vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...assistance of a people." t See his beautiful illustration in page 224 of this work. J " Power to doe good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For...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,... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 pages
...TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but morel itself In a wide sea of wax. Shakspcare. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Becon. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. . ^ L. PHILADELPHIA : CAREY, LEA, AND CAREY... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 336 pages
...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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. BACON. IN FOUR VOLUMES. VOL. IV. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON. STREET.... | |
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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... 
