 | Abel Boyer - Characters and characteristics - 1702 - 404 pages
...worthy and generous Spirit, whom Honour mends ; for Honour is, or fhould be, the place of Virtue : And as in Nature things move violently to their Place,...their Place : So Virtue in Ambition is violent, in Authority fettled and calm. * XXXIX. Oftentat.ton and Pride, upon the account of Honours and Preferments,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...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,...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 - 1815 - 310 pages
...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,...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 - 1815 - 292 pages
...ancient time, what is best ; and of the latter time, what is fittest. 54. 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. 55. Boldness in civil business, is like pronunciation in the orator of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...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,...their place ; so virtue in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. AH rising to Great Place, is by a winding stair; aud if there be factions,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...ancient time, what is best ; and of the latter time, what is fittest. 54. 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. 55. Boldness in civil business is like pronunciation in the orator of... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...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,...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 - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...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,...their place, so virtue 'in ambition is violent, in authority settled and calm. AH rising to great place is by a winding stair; and if there be factions,... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...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,...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 - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...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,...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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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... 
