 Vespasianus mutatus in melius: though the one was meant of sufficiency, the other of manners and affection. It is an assured sign of a worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends. For honour is, or should be, the place of virtue; and as in nature things...  The Advancement of Learning - Side 260av Francis Bacon - 1895Uten tilgangsbegrensning - Om denne boken
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 sider
...worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends. For honour is, or should be, the place of virtue : on ; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second...which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding-stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1856 - 562 sider
...worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends — for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue — and as in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1856 - 406 sider
...consent of all he was fit to govern, if he had not governed." is, or should be, the place of virtue ; and as in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Richard Whately - 1857 - 578 sider
...worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends — for honour is, or should be, the place of virtue — and as in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 412 sider
...worthy and generous Spirit, whom Honour amends. For Honour is, or fhould be, the Place of Virtue ; and as in Nature, Things move violently to their Place, and calmly in their Place ; fo Virtue in Ambition is violent, in Authority fettled and calm. All Rifing to Great Place is by... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 790 sider
...worthy and generous spirit, whom honour amends. For honour is, or should be, the place of virtue ; and as in nature things move violently to their place...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair ; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Samuel Mosheim Smucker - 1859 - 662 sider
...and they will never be calm till they have attained their predestined elevation. Lord Bacon says, " As in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent; in authority, settled and calm." Mr. Webster had a giant's brain and a giant's heart, and he wanted... | |
 | Daniel Webster, Samuel M. Smucker - 1859 - 568 sider
...and they will never be calm till they have attained their predestined elevation. Lord Bacon says, " As in nature things move violently to their place,...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent; in authority, settled and calm." Mr. Webster had a giant's brain and a giant's heart, and ho wanted... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1860 - 720 sider
...worthy and generous spirit whom honour amends, for honour is or should be the place of virtue ; and ai in nature things move violently to their place, and...in their place, so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | John Frederick Boyes - 1865 - 280 sider
...its successive falls. To be cured, it must be taken up and crushed in the arms of a divine Hercules. In Nature things move violently to their place, and calmly in their place.—BACON. SO pride often shows itself more actively in a poor man than in a rich one, for in... | |
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