 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 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... | |
 | Efraim Liljeqvist - Ethics - 1898 - 394 pages
...förklarar han : 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... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...not to can.9 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... | |
 | Rebecca Smith Pollard - Spellers - 1897 - 238 pages
...virtue in another. 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. The desire of power in excess caused angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...can. But the 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. It is most... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 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 - 1900 - 290 pages
...are no longer what you were, you lose your interest in life. 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 - 1900 - 374 pages
...in others." ' " 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 ; " 5 and " The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall ; the desire of knowledge in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 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 - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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... | |
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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... 
