 | Francis Bacon - 1879 - 356 pages
...of Truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature22 of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense;23 the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1880 - 432 pages
...although it was formerly used freely for everything created, — as when Bacon says {Essay of Truth}, " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; ana his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit; " or {Adv. of Learning, B. i.),... | |
 | Robert Tuck - 1880 - 308 pages
...Moses at the Burning Bush is considered. CHAPTER^ VII. THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. " The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of the reason ; and His Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit." — Bacon, " Man may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...animate and inanimate objects. Thus in the Essay « Of Truth," ante, p. 2 : — The first ereature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of i lii- sense, the last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...knowledge of truth (which is the presence of it) and the belief of truth -0 (which is the enjoying of it) is the sovereign good of human nature. The...illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon <s the face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth... | |
 | 1881 - 602 pages
...sway maintains. The attribute of Gon liimsclf confest, That sianips his imajje en llic human breast," "The first • creature of God, in the works of the...the light of the sense ; the last was the light of rcuson ; and his Sabbath work over fiinco is the illumination of his spirit. First ho breathed light... | |
 | William Mellen Chamberlain - 1881 - 410 pages
...paused, with dew-gemmed face uplifted, and Robert added to her text fit commentary from Bacon : — " The first creature of God, in the works of the Days, was the light of Sense; the last was the light of Reason, and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1882 - 330 pages
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 | John Charles Wright - 1882 - 188 pages
...shadow played. 'Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon. Ex. 26. — The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood... | |
 | Charles Dudley Warner - 1896 - 552 pages
...the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The...work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. . . . The poet that beautified the sect that was otherwise inferior to the rest, saith yet excellently... | |
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. 
