 | Harvey Goodwin - 1886 - 160 pages
...and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of...believe that the highest link of nature's chain must need be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."—BACON, Advancement of Learning. WE now turn over a... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and...will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chnin must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a... | |
 | Augustus Hopkins Strong - 1888 - 676 pages
...laws that govern nature, how could there be any disorder ? Thus the lofty thought of the classic poet that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair i» exchanged for the blasphemous assertion that the heavens declare, not the glory of God, but the... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1889 - 396 pages
...it dwell and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. Significant words these, for all sciolists. No man was ever born an atheist ; if he has become one,... | |
 | Jerome Dean Davis - 1889 - 274 pages
...further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and works of providence, then, according to the old Greek poets, he •will easily believe that the highest...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." We have seen the truth of Lord Bacon's words, in reference to cause, aud we shall find them just as... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 pages
...if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." Lastly, here, as regards Bacon, we may refer to that grand passage in the Essays that begins : " I... | |
 | James Hutchison Stirling - 1890 - 440 pages
...if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." Lastly, here, as regards Bacon, we may refer to that grand passage in the Ussays that begins : " I... | |
 | Franz Hettinger - 1890 - 388 pages
...if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther and seeth the dependence of causes and...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." 3 Niebuhr confirms this truth as regards historic, and Meyer 4 as regards mechanical, science: both... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 456 pages
...and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' Works, iii. 267. 1. 13. Leucippus, Democritus, and Epicurus] Here referred to only as holding the atomic... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1890 - 510 pages
...and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair," ie that the series of natural phenomena is directed by God. 10. confederate, bound together, united.... | |
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... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on... 
