 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 sidor
...the better course, and had, at one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he, in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as...part of his own magnificent predictions. He would not merely have pointed out, but would have divided the spoil. Above all, he would have left not only... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1857 - 544 sidor
...his petitions do not seem at this time to aim at any active legal place ; for he says, " I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." His suit not receiving so much encouragement from... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - 1849 - 688 sidor
...science. When young, like Milton, he felt that he was destined for great things. "I confess," said he, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends." We cannot but regret that his lot was cast in such a mould that his own magnificent conceptions were... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 620 sidor
...either prodigal or slothful, yet, my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, ] confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken »11 knowledge to be my providence;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 870 sidor
...either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 sidor
...am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my course to get. Lastly I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have. taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers,... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 sidor
...am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend nor my course to get. Lastly I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof... | |
 | 1852 - 780 sidor
...knew Hie better course, and had. at one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter inated iheir contempt for terrestrial distinctions....seemed to vanish, when compared with the hounclhss nave led his followers, not only to the verge, but into the heart of the promised land. He would not... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1852 - 764 sidor
...Hie better course, and had, at они time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as...moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, hut the Joshua of philosophy. He would hare fulfilled a large part ot'his own magnificent predictions.... | |
 | Theodore Alois Buckley - 1853 - 446 sidor
...the better course, and had, at one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he, in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as...Moses but the Joshua of philosophy. He would have iulfilled a large part of his own magnificent predictions. He would have led his followers, not only... | |
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities,... 
