But ere he came near it, the pillar and cross of light broke up, and cast itself abroad, as it were, into a firmament of many stars, which also vanished soon after, and there was nothing left to be seen but a small ark, or chest of cedar, dry, and not... Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus, More's Utopia, Bacon's New ... - Page 181by Plutarch - 1890 - 284 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Johnson - 1805 - 954 pages
...scattered!, and brtakttk up suddenly ' Bam. But, ere he came near it, the pillar und ста of light brakt up, and cast itself abroad, as it were into a firmament of many stars. But*. What we obtain by conversation, is oftentimes lost again, as soon a.« the companj iríais »лог,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1815 - 292 pages
...with silence rowed towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the pillar and cross of light brake up, and cast itself abroad, as it were into a firmament...though it swam. And in the fore-end of it which was toward him, grew a small green branch of palm ; and when the wise man had taken it with all reverence... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...silence rowed to" wards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the " pillar and cross of light brake up, and cast itself " abroad, as it were into a firmament...; " which also vanished soon after, and there was no" thing left to be seen but a small ark or chest of " cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...silence rowed " towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the " pillar and cross of light brake up, and cast itself " abroad, as it were into a firmament...stars; " which also vanished soon after, and there was no" thing left to be seen but a small ark or chest of " cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water,... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...silence rowed " towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the " pillar and cross of light brake up, and cast itself " abroad, as it were into a firmament...stars; " which also vanished soon after, and there was no" thing left to be seen but a small ark or chest of " cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water,... | |
| Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 pages
..."with silence rowed towards the pillar. But ere he came " near it, the pillar and cross of light brake up, and cast itself " abroad, as it were into a firmament...and there was nothing left to be " seen but a small aik or chest of cedar, dry, and not wet at " all with water, though it swam. And in the fore-end of... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 778 pages
...hut ere he came near it the pillar and cross of lipht hrake up, and cast itself ahroad, as it were in a firmament of many" stars; which also vanished soon...wet at all with water, though it swam : and in the fore end of it, which was towards him, grew a small green branch of palm ; and when the wise man had... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...firmament of many"stars; which also vanished soon after, and there was nothing left to he seen hut a small ark, or chest of cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water, though it swam i and in the fore end of it, which was towards him, grew a small green hranch of palm ; and when the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...with silence rowed towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the pillar and t cross of light brake up, and cast itself abroad, as it were into a firmament...a small ark or chest of cedar, dry, and not wet at nil with water, though it swam. And in the fore-end of it which was towards him, grew a small green... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...with silence rowed towards the pillar. But ere he came near it, the pillar and cross of light brake asting, from the beginning, or ever the earth was....no depths I was brought forth; when there were no àrk or chest of cedar, dry, and not wet at all with water, though it swam. And in the fore-end of... | |
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