 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1876 - 768 pages
...good. ATTERBURY. 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 or commanding ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 300 pages
...The contemplative life of the Greek philosophers is a despicable affair, and 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... | |
 | Walter Savage Landor - 1876 - 538 pages
...Pericles might have acted on it, " 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 can not be without power and place, as the vantage and commanding ground." And again,... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - Readers - 1876 - 660 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 ; 8 Indignities for basenesses or meannesses. 8 " Since you are not what you were, there is no... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...not to can. 14 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... | |
 | Navy - 1878 - 156 pages
...says this philosopher, " is the true and lawful end of aspiring ; for good thoughts (though God except 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 ;" and then again,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...not to can.14 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... | |
 | Florence Wilford - 1879 - 316 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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For good thoughts, though God accept them, yet towards 35 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... | |
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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... 
