 | Lucy Aikin - 1818 - 544 pàgines
...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, pkilanthropia,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 616 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 616 pàgines
...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, philant hropia,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 624 pàgines
...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,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pàgines
...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...and discoveries ; the best state of that province. This, whether it be curiosity, or vain-glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably, phitanthropia... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pàgines
...as I have moderate civil ends ; for I have taken all knowledge to be my providence ," and if 1 could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pàgines
...and if I could purge it of two sojts " of rovers, whereof thejjne with frivolous dispu: " tations, 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) Philantb.ro"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1830 - 530 pàgines
...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 with...inventions and discoveries ; the best state of that providence.* This, whether it be curiosity, or vain glory, or nature, or, if one take it favourably,... | |
 | William Tait, Christian Isobel Johnstone - 1847 - 892 pàgines
...be my province, and — if I could purge it of two sorts of rovers, whereof the one with frivoloiu disputations, confutations, and verbosities, the other...impostures, hath committed so many spoils — I hope 1 should bring in industrious observations, grounded conclusions, nnd profitable Inventions and discoveries.'... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pàgines
...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...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;... 
