 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 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... | |
 | Samuel Austin Allibone - Quotations, English - 1880 - 772 pages
...good. ATTF.RIHJRY. Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring; for good thoughts, though G G act ; and that cannot be without power and place, as the vantage or commanding ground. Merit and good... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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. 9 " Since you are not what you were, there is no reason... | |
 | Henry Lewis (M.A.) - 1881 - 250 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.' 1. " By this time the equipage of the strolling company was... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 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... | |
 | Brainerd Kellogg - English literature - 1882 - 460 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 - 1882 - 570 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... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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 - 1883 - 236 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... | |
 | Sermons - 1883 - 376 pages
...good," says Bacon, " 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." Thus far he is right and sound; but not when he adds, " That can not be without power and place... | |
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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... 
