 | Osgood Eaton Fuller - Conduct of life - 1881 - 658 pages
...Goodness I call the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of 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 - 1882 - 570 pages
...the habit, and goodness of nature the inclination. This, of all virtues and dignities of the mind, ia 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... | |
 | Benjamin G. Lovejoy - 1883 - 304 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... | |
 | Hugh Fraser Campbell - English language - 1883 - 128 pages
...(3.) Let her great Danube rolling fair Enwind her isles, unmarked of me. (4.) 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. (5.) When the dragon womb Of Stygian... | |
 | Griffith, Farran, Browne and co - 1883 - 392 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 - 1884 - 474 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 - 1884 - 476 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... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 540 pages
...the affecting of the weal of men, which is that the Grecians call Philanthropia. 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, &c.' ' Wisdom for a man's self... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 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 - Philosophy, English - 1890 - 826 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. 
