 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, according...sobriety, or an ill-applied moderation, think or maintain, tli.it a man can search too far, or be too well studied in the book of God's word, ot the book of God's... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 sider
...and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily beJieve that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." The testimony of his friends is of the same nature. His chaplain and biographer, Dr. Rawley, says,... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, according...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. — Bacon (Adv. of Learning}. P. 235, n., c. 2, 1. 1. — Since fate is nothing more than an interlaced... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. 4 To conclude therefore, let no man upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think... | |
 | James McCosh - 1863 - 588 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, then, according...chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."J • See Letters between Leibnitz and Clarke. f Ke Aug. Scien. t Eighth Edition. — The late... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 sider
...which He has made than that He has abandoned it. " When a man," says' Bacon, "seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, then, according...the poets, he will easily believe that the highest * Smith's Relations of Faith and Philosophy, p. 13. + Indications of the Creator, p. «. link of nature's... | |
 | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - 128 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but, when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, then, according...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." But it may be replied that the foregoing reasoning... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 sider
...some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, according...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." The same doctrine is more distinctly expressed in his interpretation of the fable of Pan, thus : —... | |
 | Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke) - 1870 - 252 sider
...to Homer, Iliad, viii. 19. and Mr. Wright also gives Plato, Theaet, i. 153 c. Bacon's words are, " the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe, that the highest link of nature's chain need be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair " : and " The heathen themselves conclude as much in that... | |
 | Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke) - 1870 - 290 sider
...to Homer, Iliad, viii. 19. and Mr. AV right also gives Plate, Theaet, i. 163 e. Baeon's words are, "the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe, that the highest link of nature's ehain need bo tied to the foot of Jupiter's ehair " : and " The heathen themselves eonelude as mneh... | |
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... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on... 
