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" The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from above, and some springing from beneath ; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation. "
The Advancement of Learning - Page 101
by Francis Bacon - 1873 - 376 pages
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending...springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nntiire, the other inspired by divinejeselation. The light of nature consisteth in the notions of the...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. r [THE knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending...of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation. J The light of nature consisteth in Trie notions of the mind, and the reports of the senses ; for as...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. THE knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending...reports of the senses ; for as for knowledge which man rcceiveth by teaching, it is cumulative, and not original, as in a water, that, besides his own spring-head,...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. THE knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending...beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, thepther inspired by divine revelation. ffhe light of nature consisteth in the notions of the mind,...
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The Church Magazine, Volume 5

1843 - 600 pages
...and you fix him to the earth." "The knowledge of man," says Bacon, "is as the waters, some decending from above, and some springing from beneath ; the...nature, the other inspired by divine revelation." To exclude * Deut. ir. 7 & 8. + See the proceeding! of the last annual meeting of University College,...
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Essays; or, Counsels civil and moral, and the two books Of the proficience ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...judicial place or palace of the mind, which we are to approach and view with more reverence and attention. The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending...inspired by divine revelation. The light of nature cousisteth in the notions of the mind and the reports of the senses : for as for knowledge which man...
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A Discourse of the Baconian Philosophy

Samuel Tyler - 1844 - 214 pages
...of nature, and divine revelation: "The knowledge of man is as the waters, some descending from 11* above, and some springing from beneath; the one informed by the light of nature, the other inspired bj divine revelation.'' As we have examined psychology in the light of nature, we will now inquire...
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The King's College Magazine, Volume 2

1842 - 240 pages
...and both of pathology. " Medicine without natural philosophy," says Bacon, "is but an empirical art." "The knowledge of man is as the waters ; some descending from above, and some springing from beneath." " Science is the knowledge of many, orderly and methodically arranged, so as to be attainable by one."...
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A history of the papacy, political and ecclesiastical, in the ..., Volume 2

Leopold von Ranke - 1851 - 670 pages
...account, the less certain of attaining its purpose.1 1 " The knowledge of man," says Lord Bacon, " is as the waters, some descending from above, and...of nature, the other inspired by divine revelation :" and surely we may add, that not till man shall seek the latter as well as the former, and that,...
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...and attention. The Knowledge of Man is as the waters, fome defcending from above, and fome fpringing from beneath ; the one informed by the light of Nature, the other infpired by divine revelation. The light of Nature confifteth in the Notions of the mind and the Reports...
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