 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - Poetry - 1892 - 376 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 Byron's g impetuous stirred by her violence of change. The unrest. rolling... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1893 - 546 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... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - Quotations - 1893 - 694 pages
...deformed but the unkind. Twfl/tb. Night, iii. 4. 1 11 Nature things move violently to their places, settled and calm. Bacon. In Nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 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... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Quotations, English - 1894 - 604 pages
...will live ; the farther he deviates from these, the shorter will be his existence. — CW Huftland. In nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place. — Bacon. Nature is a frugal mother, and never gives without measure. When she has work to do, she... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 pages
...line 9. mansion, the places which he inhabits. Of. p. 41, 1. 36. 20. The motion, etc. Cf. Essay 11, "And as in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, and in authority settled and calm." 23. as an instrument easy to distemper, like a musical instrument,... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 540 pages
...place showeth the man ; and it showeth some to the better, and some to the worse." Honor 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 382 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1900 - 376 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. f All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be . factions, it... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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... 
