 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 (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 sider
...of the eye, that when others come on, they think themselves go back. As in nature things move more violently to their place, and calmly in their place : so virtue in ambition is violent; in authority, settled and calm. Boldness in civil business, is like pronunciation in the orator of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 826 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 - 1887 - 326 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 and calmly in their place, so virtue ii ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. All rising to great place is by a winding stair;... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1888 - 336 sider
...a 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,... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1888 - 306 sider
...a 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, f All rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 788 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 - 1891 - 466 sider
...a worthy and generous spirit, whom honor amends ; for honor 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,... | |
 | Edmund Clarence Stedman - 1892 - 376 sider
...answered perfectly to the two conditions of nature embraced in Lord Bacon's profound observation, that " In nature things move violently to their place and calmly in their place." Byron's fitful genius was Byron's g impetuous stirred by her violence of change. The unrest. rolling... | |
 | Henry Spackman Pancoast - 1893 - 546 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,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1894 - 688 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,... | |
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