| George V. Tudhope - 2006 - 20 pages
...designed to imitate the Divine plan. Bacon revealed the meaning of the Divine plan by these words: "The Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out." It should be noted that Bacon's quotation from Solomon's 25th proverb is slightly different from that... | |
| Charles Eisenberg - 2007 - 437 pages
...2:11-30 fl)". In 1605, Sir Francis Bacon wrote on this same passage that the "inquisition of truth... the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out (The Advancement of Learning, quoted by Daniel Boorstin, The Discoverers, p, k)". This requires that... | |
| Sir Norman Lockyer - 1878 - 746 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." It seems to us now a little thing for a great mind meditating upon the form of a... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 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. 12. Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the times after our Saviour came... | |
| 1867 - 818 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...found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honor than to be God's playfellows in that game." One moro quotation from the book of Ecclesiastcs,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...so he saith expressly, " The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of a king is to find physic should handle that which supposeth in nature only a being and moving; and m delightto hide his works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater... | |
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