 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...C.But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts, though God accept4 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 conscience5 of the same... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 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....better than good dreams, except they be put in act." — Bacon, "Essay of Great Place." 7. " By this time the equipage of the strolling company was arrived... | |
 | 1869 - 642 pages
...: ' Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts (though God accepts them) yet towards men are little better than good...cannot be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground.' The second, thus : ' Honour hath three things in it ; the vantage ground to... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 550 pages
...the human race requires. " Power to do good," says Lord Bacon, " is the true and lawful end of all aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them),...better than good dreams, except they be put in act. And men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers-on."... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...are the first that find their own griefs ; though they be the last that find their own faults. 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 - 1873 - 266 pages
...the latter is a curse ; for in evil the best condition is not to will, the second not to can.1 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 ; 2 and conscience 3 of the... | |
 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - Labor - 1873 - 424 pages
...the latter is a curse : for in evil the hest condition is not to will, the second not to care. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...and that cannot be without power and place as the vantage-ground." — BACON. there is not, and though it is strongly disputed that there ever had been,... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Citizenship - 1873 - 32 pages
...force to purposes of good. I quite concur in the wisdom of Lord Bacon, when he says that " such power is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts,...that cannot be without power and place as the vantage and commanding ground." I should, however, venture to question the exclusive feature of the condition.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1874 - 100 pages
...the latter is a curse; for in evil, the best condition is not to will, the second not to can. 20 But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring;...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... | |
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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... 
