 | John Rolfe - 1867 - 404 pages
...not to can. 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 ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...not to can.' 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 ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...C.But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts, though God accept4 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 ground^ Merit and good... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1869 - 196 pages
...not to can ; 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." — Bacon, "Essay of Great Place." 7. " By this time the equipage of the strolling company was... | |
 | 1869 - 642 pages
...: ' Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts (though God accepts 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 ground.' The second,... | |
 | Augustus Maverick - Journalism - 1870 - 550 pages
...do good," says Lord Bacon, " is the true and lawful end of all aspiring. For good thoughts (though God accept them), yet towards men are little better than good dreams, except they be put in act. And men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...own faults. 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 ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...not to can.1 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 ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Thomas Wright ("the journeyman engineer.") - Labor - 1873 - 424 pages
...not to care. 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-ground." — BACON. there is not, and... | |
 | Charles Francis Adams - Citizenship - 1873 - 32 pages
...Bacon, when he says that " such power 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 ground." I should, however,... | |
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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... 
