 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 820 sidor
...resolved to pursue it "I confess," said be in a letter written when he was still young, •• that I hare as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil...part of his own magnificent predictions. He would 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 - 1861 - 752 sidor
...resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a Iptfpr written when he was still young, ** that I liave ulay 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 - 1861 - 422 sidor
...that I have as vast eontemplative ends as I have moderate eivil ends." Had his eivil ends eontinued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses,...philosophy. He would have fulfilled a large part of his own magnifieent predietions. He would have led his followers, not only to the verge, but into the heart... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1861 - 464 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 446 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 466 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, whereof... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 432 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...would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua of BACON. philosophy. He would have fulfilled a large part of his own magnificent predictions. He would... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 sidor
...knew 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...ends." Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, ho would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua of philosophy. He would have fulfilled a large... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 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. . . This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory,... | |
 | Edward Foss - 1870 - 816 sidor
...altered, 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 nil knowledge to be my province.' His hu.it not receiving so much encouragement from... | |
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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,... 
