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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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Symbolic Education: A Commentary on Froebel's "Mother Play,"

Susan Elizabeth Blow - 1894 - 296 pages
...objects, and their delight when search has been rewarded by discovery justifies Lord Bacon's saying that " according to the innocent play of children the divine...hide his works, to the end to have them found out." As childhood passes into boyhood, the longing for estrangement manifests itself in new and deeper forms....
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The Essays: Colours of Good and Evil, & Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...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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The Advancement of Learning, Book I, Book 1

Francis Bacon - 1904 - 220 pages
...saith expressly, ' The glory of God is to conceal a 25 thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ; ' as if, according to the innocent play of...found out ; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honor than to be God's playfellows in that game, 30 considering the great commandment of wits and means,...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon

1905 - 958 pages
...affirmeth directly that 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...hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and...
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The Hidden Signatures of Francesco Colonna and Francis Bacon: A Comparison ...

William Stone Booth - 1910 - 98 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." Francis Bacon in The Advancement of Learning. Spedding's edition, page 298. Appendix...
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The Mystery of Francis Bacon

William Thomas Smedley - 1912 - 216 pages
...thing, but the Glory of a King is to find it out. As if according to that innocent and affectionate play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight...and as if Kings could not obtain a greater Honour, then to be God's play-fellowes in that game, especially considering the great command they have of...
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The Cryptography of Shakespeare: Part one

Walter Arensberg - 1922 - 314 pages
...sayth expressely : The glorie of God is to conceale a thing, But the glorie of the King is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of Children the diuine Maiestie tooke delight to hide his workes, to the end to haue them found out, and as if Kinges...
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Poetic Imagery Illustrated from Elizabethan Literature, Volume 35

Henry W. Wells - 1924 - 256 pages
...intelligencers can give no news of them, their seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow. As if according to the innocent play of children the...found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honor than to be God's playfellows in that game. Advancement of Learning, Part I As if there were sought...
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The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man

Marshall McLuhan - 1962 - 306 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. Bacon's allusion to scientific discovery as a children's game brings us close to...
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Love's Body, Reissue of 1966 edition

Norman O. Brown - 1990 - 292 pages
...game of hide-and-seek: "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,...honour than to be God's playfellows in that game." Bacon in McLuhan, Gutenberg Galaxy, 19o. Literal meanings are packaged commodities for passive consumers:...
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