 | Lucy Aikin - 1872 - 566 lapas
...ends as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to 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,... | |
 | Sir James Allanson Picton - 1873 - 752 lapas
...ends as I have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, have committed so many spoils — I hope I should bring in industrious observation, grounded conclusions,... | |
 | Michael Walsh - 1875 - 98 lapas
...ends, as I have moderate civil ends: for I have taken all knowledge to my province; and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impositions, hath committed so many spoils; I hope I should bring in industrious observations, grounded... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1877 - 338 lapas
...ends as I have moderate civil ends ; for 1 have taken all knowledge to be my province, and if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers (whereof the one with...disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other 1 i. 108. " ie particularly. with blind experiments and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 824 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 favorably) philanthropia,... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 742 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...confutations, and verbosities, the other with blind experinaents and auricular traditions and impostures, hath committed so many spoils, I hope I should... | |
 | James Spedding - 1878 - 402 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...frivolous disputations, confutations, and verbosities, *he other with blind expert. 1690-92.] REMEMBRANCE TO BURGIILEY. 6T ments and auricular traditions... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 438 lapas
...disputations, confutations and verbosities, — the other with auricular -traditions, and blind experiments and impostures, — hath committed so many spoils...discoveries ; — the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, pTiilanthropia,... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 464 lapas
..." I have taken " (he writes to ]5urghley in 1591) "all knowledge to be my province. And if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...disputations, confutations and verbosities, —the other with auricular traditions, and blind experiments and impostures,—hath committed so many spoils; I hope... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 440 lapas
...foot. " I have taken " (he writes to Burghley in 1591) "all knowledge to be my province. And if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...disputations, confutations and verbosities, —the other with auricular traditions, and blind experiments and impostures,—hath committed so many spoils; I hope... | |
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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;... 
