 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 Seiten
...assistance of a people." t See his beautiful illustration in page 2S4 of this work. J " Power to doe good, is the true and lawful end of aspiring. For...thoughts (though God accept them) yet towards men, arc little better than good dreams : except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 376 Seiten
...considered preferment a sacred trust for the encouragement of merit. Power to do good is, he says, the true and lawful end of aspiring, for good thoughts though God accept them, are little better than good dreams except they be put in act. " Detur digniori" was therefore his favourite... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 Seiten
...I think of it with that satisfaction ever attendant upon the hope of being an instrument of good. " Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring. Merit and good works is the end of man's motion, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of... | |
 | 1836 - 596 Seiten
...is, and, looking through the ermine to the common failings and infirmities of our nature, know that ' Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring, ' and that they ought to enter their profession, not as a shop for profit and sale, but a rich storehouse... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1837 - 382 Seiten
...nature of power : not to mistake what is of the earth earthy, for what is of the Lord from heaven. — Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...vantage and commanding ground. Merit, and good works are the end of man's motion ; and conscience of the same, is the accomplishment of man's rest; for,... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...OF POWER. THE honest and the just bounds of observation by one person upon another extend no further but to understand him sufficiently whereby not to...of aspiring; for good thoughts (though God accept and Joseph Surface thus reason * Agnus was the only word which the wolf could make of all the letters... | |
 | 1842 - 544 Seiten
...endeavors of the best powers. Even Bacon, with all his debasement, felt this, and thus proclaims it. " But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...little better than good dreams, except they be put into action. Merit and good works is the end of man's motive, and conscience of the same is the accomplishment... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 614 Seiten
...the latter is a ourse ; for in evil the best condition is not to will ; the second, not to care. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring....commanding ground. Merit and good works is the end of Hum's motion ; and conscience of the same is the accomplishment of mans rest. For if a man can be partaker... | |
 | John Gregg (bp. of Cork, Cloyne and Ross.) - 1847 - 92 Seiten
...we should ever prefer the greater to the lesser good—good to the soul before good to the body. " Power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring."* The greatest good we can do is to make Christ known, and loved, and served: he is God's best gift to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 Seiten
...the latter is a curse : for in evil the best condition is not to will ; the second not to can. But power to do good is the true and lawful end of aspiring...thoughts (though God accept them,) yet towards men aro little better than good dreams, except they be put in act ; and that cannot be without power and... | |
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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... 
