 | George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of uss and action, that end before mentioned of the applying... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before mentioned of the applying... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop foi profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before mentioned of the applying... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...more intimate and strict conjunction of contemplation and action ;ta conjunction like that of Sa turn the planet of rest and contemplation; and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. But here by use and action, we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre; for that diverts the... | |
 | 1861 - 814 pages
...once be seen how far the prophesy falls short of its actual f ulfilment : " But this," says Bacon, " is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge,...Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action." Surely, by the well-known laws of interpretation, in no way exceeding the licence properly permitted... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
...non tanquam in face Romuli."(a) And in considering the peccant humours of learning, he lays, " This will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation...Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action." (b) And in his enquiry into action and contemplation, after objecting to Aristotle's preference of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...estate. * But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation andjactipn may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united...and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying... | |
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But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt, knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet... 
