 the highest attainable degree their happiness. How momentous that trust is, we may learn from the instructions of the founder of modern philosophy : • No man," says Bacon, "can by care-taking, as the Scripture saith, add a cubit to his stature in this...  The Works of William H. Seward - Page 71by William Henry Seward - 1853Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...subjects some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking, (as the scripture saith,) " add a cubit to his stature,"...man's body; but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the s>eneral. To conclude: no man can, by care taking (as the Scripture saith) add a cubit to his stature,...man's body: but in the great frame of Kingdoms and Commonwealths, it is in the power of Princes or Estates to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms.... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. • . To conclude: no man can, by care taking, as the Scripture saith, add a cubit to his stature,...man's body: but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...and ensigns to the general. To conclude : no man can, by care taking, as the Scripture saith, adda cubit to his stature, in this little model of a man's body : but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith), " add a cubit to his stature,"...this little model of a man's body; but in the great fame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...subjects some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith), " add a cubit to his stature,"...this little model of a man's body; but in the great fame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1822 - 234 pages
...subjects some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) " add a cubit to his stature,"...this little model of a man's body; but in the great fame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...subjects some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith) " add a cubit to his stature,"...this little model of a man's body; but in the great fame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 598 pages
...subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can, by care taking, as the Scripture saith, add a cubit to his stature,...man's body : but in the great frame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes or estates, to add amplitude and greatness to their kingdoms.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...subjects, some triumphal garments and ensigns to the general. To conclude: no man can by care taking (as the Scripture saith), " add a cubit to his stature,"...this little model of a man's body ; but in the great fame of kingdoms and commonwealths, it is in the power of princes, or estates, to add amplitude and... | |
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