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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... "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 8
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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Philosophy of Theism Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the ...

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1896 - 348 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." The natural and the theistic interpretations of the ifaiinat- universe cannot conflict with one another,...
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The Task: With Tirocinium, and Selections from the Minor Poems, A.D. 1784-1799

William Cowper - 1896 - 348 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 chair must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' Bacon used nearly the same words again in...
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Philosophy of Theism: Being the Gifford Lectures Delivered Before the ...

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1896 - 350 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...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature,s chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter,s chair." The natural and the theistic interpretations...
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God, the Creator and Lord of All, Volume 1

Samuel Harris - 1896 - 602 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...the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe the highest link of Nature's chain must needs be tied to Jupiter's chair. To conclude, therefore, let...
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Selections from Wordsworth

William Wordsworth - 1897 - 284 pages
...metaphor to indicate that the series of natural phenomena is directed by God : ' ' When a man . . . seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence,...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. " See To , 49, 50 : " The filial chain let down From his everlasting throne." Cf. Spenser, Faery Queene,...
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Natural Religion: From the 'Apologie Des Christenthums' of Franz Hettinger

Franz Hettinger - 1898 - 408 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...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature,s chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter,s chair." 3 Niebuhr confirms this truth as...
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Philosophy of theism. Gifford lects

Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1899 - 400 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." The natural and the religious interpretations of the world cannot conflict with one another, if each...
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 56

1899 - 820 pages
...of difference and discussion ; some of it puerile, some of it erroneous. Lord Bacon said, "When man seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of providence,...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." But has this been the fact? At no period of the world has the costnological argument for the being...
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First Steps with American and British Authors

Albert Franklin Blaisdell - 1899 - 462 pages
...Thus Bacon, in his "Advancement of Learning," i. 1. 3, says, "According to the allegory of the poets the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair," and cf. "Advancement of Learning," ii. vi. I, and "Essays," 16. 10. Jeremy Taylor writes, " Faith is...
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The Works of George Berkeley ...: Philosophical works, 1734-52: The analyst ...

George Berkeley, Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1901 - 466 pages
...invisible Fire, itself immediately dependent on Supreme Active Reason. So Bacon : — ' When a man seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence,...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' — (Adv. of Learning, p. 12.) ' I have not seen this translation. I am indebted for an account obvious....
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