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" The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; and as if kings could not... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 42
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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The Authorship of Shakespeare

Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...Solomon as saying, " That it is the glory of God to conceal a thing, but the glory of a king to find it out, as if, according to the innocent play of children,...works, to the end to have them found out " ; * and he says, again, " The spirit of man is the lamp of God, wherewith he searcheth the inwardness of all...
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The British Quarterly Review, Volume 46

Henry Allon - 1867 - 658 pages
...should understand and imagine the good ; that all should begin, at least, to follow and find out God. ' Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to ' have them found out ; und as if kings could not obtain a ' greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that gumo.' One...
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Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 pages
...so he saith expressly, The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out; as if, according to the innocent play of children,...commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. i2\Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into...
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The Christian Ambassador, Volume 7

1869 - 404 pages
...but the glory of the king is to find it out," says Solomon. " As if," remarks Bacon on the passage, " according to the innocent play of children, the Divine...honour than to be God's playfellows in that game." One more quotation from the book of Ecclesiastes, setting forth both the necessity we are under to...
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Thoughts, philosophical and medical, selected from the works of Francis ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1870 - 88 pages
...so he saith expressly. The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ; as if, according to the innocent play of...commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into...
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English poems, ed. with life, intr. and selected notes by R.C. Browne, Volume 2

John Milton - 1870 - 352 pages
...playing,' and so Milton gives the passage in his Tetrachordon. Cf. Bacon (Advancement of Learning i.) ' as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his work? to the intent to have them found out.' 1. 17. Horace (Odes, iv. II. 26) alludes to the fate of...
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English Poems, Volume 2

John Milton - 1872 - 452 pages
...playing," and so Milton gives the passage in his Tetrachordon. Cp. Bacon (Advancement of Learning, i.) 'as if, according to the innocent play of children,...Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works to the intent to have them found out.' 11. 18, 19. Horace (Odes, iv. II. 26) alludes to the fate of Bellerophon,...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 pages
...so he saith expressly, The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ; as if, according to the innocent play of...game; considering the great commandment of wits and m • whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. 12. Neither did the dispensation of God vary...
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Text-book of Prose: From Burke, Webster, and Bacon : with Notes, and ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1876 - 660 pages
...so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out"; as if, according to the innocent play of...commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came into...
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Bacon: The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...so he saith expressly, The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ; as if, according to the innocent play of...commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from them. 12. Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came...
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