 | James Anderson - Books, Reviews - 1793 - 380 pages
...This, .of all vertues and dignities of themind, is the greatest, being the character of the ei '' ; and without it, man is a busie, mischievous, wretched...Now as God made man after his own spiritual image, sa it is not so defaced, but that the inclination to goodnefs remaineth deeply imprinted in his nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1812 - 348 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 310 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. G oodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. G oodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1820 - 548 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Learning and scholarship - 1820 - 200 pages
...it shews much of a divine nature, and a kind of conformity with Christ himself. 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 vermin*. THE PLEASURES OF MALEVOLENCE.... | |
 | British prose literature - 1821 - 416 pages
...express it. 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, ao better than a kind of vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...express it. 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 vermin. Goodness answers to the theological... | |
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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 vermin. 
