 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pàgines
...Goodness, and Goodness of Nature :-- ' Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the...being the character of the Deity ; and without it man ia a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better limn a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | 1846 - 534 pàgines
..." Introduction " without quoting the author's allusion to Bacon's observation, that philanthropy, " of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of (he Deity; and, without it, man is a busy, miscehivous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin."... | |
 | William Alexander Mackinnon - 1846 - 444 pàgines
...in this sense, the seeking the weal (welfare) of men ; which is that the Greeks call Philanthropia. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being * Milton, Reformation in England. the character of the Deity ; and without it man is a busy, mischievous,... | |
 | REV. WILLIAM BACON STEVENS. M.D. - 1847 - 530 pàgines
...it by the machinations of wicked and seditious men. Without " goodness/' says Lord Bacon,62 which, " of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is the greatest, being the character of the Deity, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing ;" a truth which the condition of Savannah sadly illustrated... | |
 | John Locke - 1849 - 372 pàgines
...habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is tht greatest, being the .character of the Deity and without it man is a busy, mischievous wretched thing, no better than a kind of ver min. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pàgines
...little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the...it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue, charity, and admits no excess... | |
 | Charles Sumner - 1850 - 436 pàgines
...in his Essays, - the affecting of the 'teal of nun, which is what the Grecians call Philanthropeia This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the...it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin." Lord Bacon was right. Confessing the attraction's of Scholarship, awed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pàgines
...too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This oT 7 0x3y3z3 684r3 3*6 better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pàgines
...little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is...it man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological virtue charity, and admits no excess... | |
 | Ferdinand E A. Gasc - 1852 - 108 pàgines
...little too light to express it. Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, is...it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of vermin." — Bacon't Essays. existed among the former or exists among the latter... | |
| |
Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This of all virtues and dignities of the mind is the greatest, being the character of the Deity ; and, without it, man is a busy, mischievous, wretched thing, no better than a kind of... 
