 The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...  Horæ Subsecivæ - Pagina 365door John Brown - 1861Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pagina’s
...use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ;...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pagina’s
...of this Feigned History hath been to give some x shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it;...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | Edward Young - 1857 - 370 pagina’s
...OF TRINITY COLLEG-E, CAMBRIDGE J AUTHOR OF "ART: ITS CONSTITUTION AND CAPACITIES," " The world being inferior to the soul : by reason whereof, there is...variety than can be found in the nature of things." LORD BACON : On the Advancement of Learning Bk, II, LONDON: LONGMAN, BROWN, GREEN, LONGMANS, AND ROBERTS.... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1857 - 424 pagina’s
...invention, but in the discovery of truth : — not only, in Lord Bacon's words, " for the invention of a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," but to revive the neglected glories of the world as it is, to gather the fragments of splendour from... | |
 | Robert Alfred Vaughan - 1858 - 426 pagina’s
...which Mr. Young has chosen for his motto, indicate very plainly his position : — ' The world being inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is...variety than can be found in the nature of things.' Such is the ground occupied alike by the lovers of Plato and the lovers of Bacon; in fact, by every... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1859 - 508 pagina’s
...of this feigned history hath been, to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | Benjamin Gregory - 1859 - 210 pagina’s
...: — " The use of poetry has been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...variety, than can be found in the nature of things."* This effort, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind,'' which proves the necessity of poetry,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pagina’s
...use of this Feigned History hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it ;...variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pagina’s
...use of this feigned history hath been to jive some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample jreatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 516 pagina’s
...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
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