 | George Lillie Craik - 1862 - 728 pages
...affection. It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit whom honour amends, for honour is or should be the place of virtue ; and as in nature things move...their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in amhition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair;... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1865 - 280 pages
...its successive falls. To be cured, it must be taken up and crushed in the arms of a divine Hercules. In Nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.—BACON. SO pride often shows itself more actively in a poor man than in a rich one, for in... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - Psychology - 1866 - 376 pages
...reach their rightful, predestined position at its head. "As in nature," says Bacon, " things move more violently to their place and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm." As long as Chatham is out of office, England must be torn with factions, in his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 pages
...an assured [28] sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends ; for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue ; and as in nature things...place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All [29] Affection : feeling, tenderness. The Antitheta has this sentiment : ' Honores... | |
 | Joseph Edwin Frobisher - Elocution - 1867 - 276 pages
...and they will never he calm till they have attained their predestined elevation. Lord Bacon says, " As in nature things move violently to their place...place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority, settled and calm." Mr. Webster liad a giant's brain and a giant's heart, and he wanted a giant's work.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends — for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue — and as in nature things...place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions, it is... | |
 | John Dudley Philbrick - Readers - 1868 - 636 pages
...and they will never be calm till they have attained their predestined elevation. Lord Bacon says, " as in nature things move violently to their place...place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority, settled and calm." Mr. Webster had a giant's brain and a giant's heart, and he wanted a giant's work.... | |
 | Josiah Gilbert Holland, Richard Watson Gilder - American literature - 1892 - 996 pages
...answered perfectly to the two conditions of nature embraced in Lord Bacon's profound observation, that "In nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place." Byron's fitful genius was stirred by her violence of change. The VOL. XI.IV.—8i. rolling surges,... | |
 | English prose literature - 1872 - 556 pages
...honour is, or should be, the place of virtue. And as in nature things move violently to their places, and calmly in their place ; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions, it is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1873 - 266 pages
...It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends. For honour is, or should be, the Place of virtue ; and as in nature things...place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great Place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions, it is... | |
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... in nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions, it is good to side a man's self... 
