 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - 602 pages
...comparison made by Pythagoras,"' to assert the honour and reputation * Plut. Life Pomp. ' St. Paul, Rom. ix. of philosophy, when being asked by "Hiero who he was,...writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine law — as Moses retired in the solitude of the mount, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who, though... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 530 pages
...maketh a full man; conference, a ready man ; and writing, an exact man. Bacon. THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. MEN ought to know that, in the theatre of human life, it is only for God and angels to be Spectators. Bacon To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God : to make... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1887 - 544 pages
...Reading maketh a full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. MEN ought to know that, in the theatre of human life, it is only for God and angels to be Spectators. Bacon. To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God: to make... | |
 | Edward Lillie Pierce - 1896 - 864 pages
...watering-places, or, at the best, amateuring in art or literature. As Lord Bacon has nobly said, " In the theatre of human life it is only for God and angels to be spectators." Society has many offices of beneficence which should be filled by men instructed in the best knowledge... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1899 - 526 pages
...contemplative life is doubtless best, and like the comparison made by Pythagoras,/ to assert the honor and reputation of philosophy, when being asked by...writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine law—as Moses retired in the solitude of the mount, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who, though... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 542 pages
...contemplative life is doubtless best, and like the comparison made by Pythagoras,' to assert the honor and reputation of philosophy, when being asked by...writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine law—as Moses retired in the solitude of the mount, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who, though... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - 606 pages
...life, in the Tus. Qusest. T 3. Cicero substitute* Leon« tins, prince of the Phoenicians, for Hieron. of philosophy, when being asked by Hiero who he was,...writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine law — as Moses retired in the solitude of the mount, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who, though... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1902 - 440 pages
...contemplative life is doubtless best, and like the comparison made by Pythagoras, " to assert the honor and reputation of philosophy, when being asked by...writing of theological books, for propagating the Divine law — as Moses retired in the solitude of the mount, and Enoch, the seventh from Adam, who, though... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...full man; conference, a ready man; and writing, an exact man. Bacon. (on) THE GENTLEMAN'S CALLING. MEN ought to know that, in the theatre of human life, it is only for God and angels to be Spectators. Bam*. To make some nook of God's creation a little fruitfuller, better, more worthy of God : to make... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1904 - 616 pages
...the prize, others to sell, others to meet their friends and be merry, but others again conn; meroly as spectators, I am one of the latter." But men ought...angels to be spectators. Nor could any doubt about this y matter have arisen in the Church, if a monastic life had been "^merely contemplative and unexercised... | |
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But men ought to know that in the theatre of human life it is only for God and angels to be spectators. Nor could any doubt about this matter have arisen in the Church, if a monastic life had been merely contemplative and unexercised in ecclesiastical... 
