 | Lucy Aikin - Great Britain - 1818 - 544 pages
...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 ends as I have moderate civil ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 616 pages
...that I am either prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my couvse to get. Lastly, 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 ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pages
...prodigal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to get. Lastly, I confess that 1 have as vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 624 pages
...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 ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to be my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...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 ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my province. And if your lordship will not carry me on, I will not do as Anaxagoras... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...digal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to " get. Lastly, I confess that 1 have as vast contemplative ends as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my ' province ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof " the one... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...relation, Lord Treasurer Burleigh — " I confess, that I have as * Dr. Rawley, Life of Bacon. 428745 " vast contemplative ends, as I have moderate civil ; " ends; for I have taken all knowledge to be my ; " province ; and if I could purge it of two sojts " of rovers, whereof thejjne... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Law - 1830 - 530 pages
...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 ends, as I have moderate civil ends : for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ;* and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - Periodicals - 1847 - 892 pages
...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 ends as...for I have taken nil knowledge to be my province, and — if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivoloiu disputations, confutations,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...I am either pro' digal or slothful, yet my health is not to spend, nor my course to ' get. Lastly, 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 ; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof ' the one... | |
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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; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities;... 
