 | John Nichol - 1888 - 270 pages
...was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. ... If there were a beam of knowledge derived from God...though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions from within himself ; which notwithstanding... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 246 pages
...was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. ... If there were a beam of knowledge derived from God...though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions from within himself; which notwithstanding... | |
 | John Nichol - 1888 - 236 pages
...was an excellent penman, but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. ... If there were a beam of knowledge derived from God...though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions from within himself ; which notwithstanding... | |
 | Edwin Percy Whipple - 1888 - 364 pages
...domestics. But Bacon's chaplain, Dr. Rawley, quaintly says : " I have been induced to think that if ever there were a beam of knowledge derived from God upon any man in these modern times it was upon him." Ben Jonson's emphatic statement of Bacon's essential " greatness," even in his disgrace and adversity,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 300 pages
...that of his friend and first biographer, Dr. Rawley. I make no apology for quoting it here : — " I have been induced to think, that if there were a...though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions from within himself; which, notwithstanding,... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 pages
...FRANCIS BACON: SOME DOUBTS CONNECTED WITH HTS PERSONAL HISTORY, AND ACTUAL WORKS AND AIMS. " I have boon induced to think that if there were a beam of knowledge...upon any man in these modern times, it was upon him." — Dr. Sawlry. IT is certain that, although much is known about Francis Bacon in some parts or phases... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - 1891 - 432 pages
...CHAPTER II. FRAXCIS BACON: SOME DOUBTS CONNECTED WITH HTS PERSONAL HISTORY, AND ACTUAL WORKS AND AIMS. "I have been induced to think that if there were a beam of knowledge derived from God upon tuiy man in these modern times, it was upon him." — Dr. Bawley. IT is certain that, although much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 600 pages
...Howard) was an excellent penman but no good speaker ; but that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both.' I have been induced to think ; That if there were...though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds or notions from within himself ; which nolwith£ standing,... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1895 - 376 pages
...tcmporibus radio quodam scientific Ilumanae illuminare. dignatus sit, ilium proculdubio illuminasse. (I have been induced to think, that if there were...upon any man in these modern times, it was upon him.) As touching Bacon's art of conversation we read in the same biography: Mensam ejus refcctioncm aurium... | |
 | William Rawley, Georg Cantor - 1896 - 36 pages
...Howard) was an excellent Pen -man, but no good Speaker; But that Sir Francis Bacon was eminent in both. I have been induced to think, That if there were a...though he was a great Reader of Books, yet he had not his Knowledge from Books, but from some Grounds and Notions from within himself. Which notwithstanding... | |
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I have been induced to think, that if there were a beam of knowledge derived from God upon any man in these modern times, it was upon him. For though he was a great reader of books, yet he had not his knowledge from books, but from some grounds and notions... 
