| 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.... | |
| 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... | |
| 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,... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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... | |
| 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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