 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 sidor
...either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess le noise of timorous and flocking birds, with those also that love t : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers,... | |
 | Henry Osborn Taylor - 1920 - 448 sidor
...men's abilities. . . . Again, the meanness of my estate doth somewhat move me. . . . 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... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - 1920 - 418 sidor
...first always held the highest place in his thoughts. " I confess," he wrote to Burghley about 1 592, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province1." This greatness of design was characteristic of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 558 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,... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1923 - 548 sidor
...constituted his deeper life. In a letter written at the outset of his career, he says proudly, " 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." The " Novum Organum " and the " Advancement of... | |
 | William Vaughn Moody, Robert Morss Lovett - 1926 - 410 sidor
...knowledge which increases man's empire over the earth. At thirty years old he wrote to Burleigh, " I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Little by little, he elaborated the doctrine which... | |
 | Emile Legouis, Louis François Cazamian - 1926 - 416 sidor
...the knowledge which increases man's empire over the earth. At thirty years old he wrote to Burleigh, "I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Little by little, he elaborated the doctrine which... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 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... | |
 | Amelia Defries - 1928 - 212 sidor
...her worthy of his service ! In this famous letter he assures his uncle of small worldly ambitions. " I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends," he writes ; " for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." Here he shows the dream of boyhood... | |
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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,... 
