 | 1823 - 836 pages
...been mid on the abolition of Slavery in Indostan, but much remains to be done; " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...act, and that cannot be without power and place." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to exert your powerful influence with the African... | |
 | 1823 - 678 pages
...been mid on the abolition of Slavery in Hindostan, but much remains to be done : " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...act, and that cannot be without power and place." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to eiert your powerful influence with the African... | |
 | 1823 - 836 pages
...been ttid on the abolition of Slavery in Indostan, but much remains to be done; " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except...be put in act, and that cannot be without power and pkce." Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to exert your powerfill influence with the... | |
 | 1823 - 720 pages
...been said on the abolition of Slavery in Hindostán, but much remains to be done : " for good thoughts towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act, and that cannorte without power and place. " Humbly, therefore, I implore your Royal Highness, to esert your... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 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...the vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good ^orks is the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of man's rest :... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 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...act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as t he vantage and commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion ; and conscience... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...legal reform. Detur digniori was his constant maxim and constant practice. (6) He knew and taught that power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; and, when appointed Solicitor, he acted in obedience to his doctrines, encouraging merit, and endeavouring... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 538 pages
...seems fast approaching, when aythority will recognize the doctrine of this great philosopher, " that power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground :" and when all society will unite with him in thinking that we ought not " to tear and rend one another... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1826 - 548 pages
...seems fast approaching, when authority will recognize the doctrine of this great philosopher, " that power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground :" and when all society will unite with him in thinking that we ought not " to tear and rend one another... | |
 | Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 276 pages
...TREMAINE. My free drift Halts not particularly, but morel itself In a wide sea of wax. Shakspcare. Power to do good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring...power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground. Becon. IN THREE VOLUMES. VOL. II. . ^ L. PHILADELPHIA : CAREY, LEA, AND CAREY CHESNUT STREET. SOLD... | |
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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... 
