 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1880 - 668 pages
...time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he, in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends." Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses, but the Joshua,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay (baron [essays]) - English essays - 1881 - 386 pages
...time, resolved to ^pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends." Had his civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, not only the Moses but the Joshua... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...Knowledge of Advancement in Life, set forth in a shape fit to come home to men's business and bosoms. I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends : so Bacon wrote in his youth. In his later life he might, with as great or greater truth, have contrasted... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1882 - 526 pages
...parts of action are. I confess that * Basil Montagu, "Bacon's Works, with a New Life" (edit. 1825-34). I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends, for / have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of errors — whereof... | |
 | Richard William Church - Great Britain - 1884 - 260 pages
...cannot accuse myself that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that I have as vast contemplative...moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to bo my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations,... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English essays - 1885 - 916 pages
...one time, resolved to pursue it. " I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " Had bis civil ends continued to be moderate, he would have been, •.-.it only the Hones, but the Joshua... | |
 | Hezekiah Lord Hosmer - Sonnets, English - 1887 - 312 pages
...realize the crushed and humble spirit of that towering mind, which, as he writes to his uncle, had " as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil...for I have taken all knowledge to be my province." They could see only " meanness and servility" in that remarkable threat: — " If your lordship will... | |
 | Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - English literature - 1890 - 1100 pages
...one time, resolved to pursue it. "I confess," said he in a letter written when he was still young, " omor Had lus civil ends con. would have been, not only the Moses but the Joshua of philosophy. He would... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...that remarkable declaration which further explains his perpetual need of money: " I confess that Ihave as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil...for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. This, whether it be curiosity or vainglory, or, if one may take it favorably, philanthropia, is so... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...get. " Then he makes that remarkable declaration which further explains his perpetual need of money: " I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken att knowledge to be my province. This, whether it be curiosity or vainglory, or, if one may take it... | |
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I confess that I have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province... 
