 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 876 sidor
...knew the better course, and had, at une time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter ment. The lesson was not thrown away. paît 2 D of his own magnificent predictions, He would have led his followers, not only to the verge,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - 1883 - 874 sidor
...resolved to pursue it. "I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, "that I bave. as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil...not only the Moses, but the Joshua of philosophy, lie would have fulfilled a large part 2 D of his own magnificent predictions, He would have led his... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 252 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1885 - 916 sidor
...knew the better coursa, and had, at one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter ion, bis civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, •.-.it only the Hones, but the Joshua... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - 562 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 Nichol - 1889 - 284 sidor
...as a man born under an excellent Sovereign that deserveth the dedication of all men's abilities. ... 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 Nichol - 1889 - 284 sidor
...as a man born under an excellent Sovereign that deserveth the dedication of all men's abilities. ... 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,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1890 - 1100 sidor
...knew the better cours?, and had, at one time, resolved to pursue it. "I confess," said he in a letter ink it wicked and infamous to do f lus civil ends con. would have been, not only the Moses but the Joshua of philosophy. He would have... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - 1891 - 502 sidor
...example, in a letter written to Lord Burghley, in his thirty-second year, he writes : " 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,... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 sidor
...he makes that remarkable declaration which further explains his perpetual need of money: " I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken att knowledge to be my province. This, whether it be curiosity or vainglory, or, if... | |
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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,... 
