 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 448 lapas
...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...and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropia,... | |
 | Adam Lind Simpson - 1861 - 464 lapas
...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,...experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, have committed so many spoils, I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions,... | |
 | J. F. Foard - 1861 - 592 lapas
...moderate civil ends, for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence (province), and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, compilations, and verbosities ; the other with blind experiments, and auricular traditions and impostures,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1862 - 466 lapas
...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...and discoveries; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) philanthropia,... | |
 | 1863 - 532 lapas
...domain there should be people whose silence he is nimble to enforce, he continues — " If I could ' purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivolous disputation, ' confutation, and verbosities, the other ' with bhnd experiments and auricular ' traditions... | |
 | William Henry Davenport Adams - 1867 - 370 lapas
...1825-34). 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...conclusions, and profitable inventions and discoveries." But the cares of poverty vexed him sorely. " If your lordship," he says, addressing his uncle, who... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 lapas
...sighing are the chief purgers of grief." — Sp. VII. 306. " If I could purge it of two sorts of errors, whereof the one with frivolous disputations, confutations,...traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils." — Letter, 1591. " When the times themselves are set upon waste and spoil." — XIII. 269. — " let... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 lapas
...grief." — S/J..VII. 306. " If I could purge it of two sorts of errors, whereof the one with frivolou* disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other...traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils." — Letter, 1591. " When the times themselves are set upon waste and spoil." — XIII. 269. — " let... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 lapas
...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...and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or (if one take it favourably) phil-jtnthropia,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1871 - 634 lapas
...Province ; And if I could purge it, of two sort of Rovers, whereof the one, with frivolous Disputation* Confutations, and Verbosities : The other, with blind...and Discoveries, the best State of that Province. This, •whether it be Curiosity, or Vain-glory, or Nature, or, (if one take it favourably,) Philanthropia,... | |
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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;... 
