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The Works of Francis Bacon ...: Philosophical works - Page 292
by Francis Bacon - 1857
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession; for 1 am not ignorant how much...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession; for I am not ignorant how much...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Volume 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of uss and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1813 - 550 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of usa and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ;. for...
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Blackwood's Magazine, Volume 90

1861 - 814 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action." Surely, by the well-known laws of interpretation, in no way exceeding the licence properly permitted...
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The Two Books of Francis, Lord Verulam: Of the Proficience and Advancement ...

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if con-- " templation and action may be more nearly and " strongly conjoined and united together, than they " have been:...Jupiter the planet of civil " society and action," he, in the year 1605, when he was 44 years of age, published his Advancement of Learning. It is entitled...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, ifcontempla" tion and action may be more nearly and straightly " conjoined and united together than they have been:...highest " planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contem" plantion ; and Jupiter, the planet of civil society " and action : howbeit, I do not mean,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contempla" tion and action may be more nearly and straightly " conjoined and united together than they have been:...highest " planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contem" plantion; and Jupiter, the planet of civil society " and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...life, God and angels only should be lookers-on ; that contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet of rest, and Jupiter the planet of action." He could not, thus thinking, but engage in active life ; and, so engaged,...
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American Annals of Education, Volume 4

1829 - 592 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemptation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...for I am not ignorant how much that diverteth and interrupted the prosecution and advancement of knowledge; like unto the golden ball thrown before Atalanta,...
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