 | 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... | |
 | 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...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground." And again, " Reduce things to the first institution, and observe wherin and... | |
 | 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...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 oe t-he same... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men, arc little better than good dreams : except they be put...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,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...nature of power : not to mistake what is of the earth earthy, for what is of the Lord from heaven. — 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 - 1838 - 894 pages
...the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition is not to will , the second not to can. But lower grounds, carrying it in some long furrows ;...the water. And this maketh an excellent improvement, and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...dreams, except they be put in act; and that cannot be without power and place ; as the vantage and commanding ground. > Merit and good works is the end...and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest. For if a man can be partaker of God's theatre, he shall likewise be partaker of God's rest.... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...rules, to act upon the system of utility, he may be assured that there is nothing new in his opinions. them), yet towards men are little better than good...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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1839 - 374 pages
...rules, to act upon the system of utilitv, he may be assured that there is nothing new in his opinions. them), yet towards men are little better than good...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... | |
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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... 
