 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 466 pages
...— a light which should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge ; and so...would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, — the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and subduer... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1868 - 444 pages
...— a light which should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge; and so spreading...would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, — the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and subduer... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1869 - 998 pages
...a light which should, in its very rising, touch and illuminate all the border regions that confine upon- the circle of our present knowledge; and so spreading further and furlh'T should presently disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 464 pages
...herself,— a light that should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge; and so spreading...into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world;—that man (I thought) would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's... | |
 | James Spedding - 1881 - 440 pages
...herself,— a light that should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge; and so spreading...into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world;—that man (I thought) would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, the propagator of man's... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 220 pages
...that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge ; and so spreading further and further shall presently disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world." The man who should succeed in accomplishing this work, he truly says, " would be the benefactor indeed... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1881 - 980 pages
...— a light which shall in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge ; and so, spreading further and further, shall presently disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world." (T.... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1881 - 222 pages
...— a light which shall in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge ; and so spreading further and further shall presently disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world." The... | |
 | John Michels (Journalist) - 1889 - 614 pages
...thought the universe a far simpler thing than it really is ; and he quotes Bacon's own remark, that he " should presently disclose and bring into sight all that is most hidden and secret in the world, "as showing what extravagant expectations he had. But the main reason for Bacon's failure was that... | |
 | Richard William Church - 1884 - 252 pages
...— a light that should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border regions that confine upon the circle of our present knowledge ; and so...would be the benefactor indeed of the human race, — the propagator of man's empire over the universe, the champion of liberty, the conqueror and subduer... | |
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But above all, if a man could succeed, not in striking out some particular invention, however useful, but in kindling a light in nature— a light which should in its very rising touch and illuminate all the border-regions that confine upon the circle... 
