 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 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. — Bacon (Adv. of Learning). P. 235, n., c. 2, 1. 1. — Since fate is nothing more than an interlaced... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...it dwell and stay there, it may inductsome oblivion of the highest cause : but when *a man passeth na, though they knew there were no such things; and...number of subtile and intricate axioms and theorems, needa be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. To conclude therefore : let no man, upon a weak conceit... | |
 | Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 640 pages
...When a man," says Bacon, "seeth the dependence of causes and the 1 Indications of the Creator, p. 8. works of Providence, then, according to the allegory...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." Having interposed in a miraculous manner at the creation of the world, it is reasonable to believe... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1854 - 796 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...will easily believe that the highest link of nature's rhain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. To conclude, therefore, let no man, upon a... | |
 | Rev. Pearson (Thomas), Thomas Pearson - 1854 - 630 pages
...When a man/' says Bacon, "seeth the dependence of causes and the 1 Indications of the Creator, p. 8. works of Providence, then, according to the allegory...that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tiedf to the foot of Jupiter's chair." Having interposed in a miraculous manner at the creation of... | |
 | John Harris - 1854 - 498 pages
...and seeth the dependence of causes, »nd the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory if the poets, he will easily believe that the highest...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."" * Advancement of Learning;, BI This sagacious truth id admirably developed and illustrated in Dr. Whcwell's... | |
 | Young Men's Christian Associations (London, England) - 1857 - 564 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." Even David Hume, notwithstanding the hazy web of scepticism with which, from a speculative rather than... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 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...highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foqt of Jupiter's chair. To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied... | |
 | 1857 - 652 pages
...from the Golden Chain With which that THING OF THINGS* bound in the world." Bacon has : " When a man seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence,...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of Nature* » chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." — Adc. of Learning, 1828, p.... | |
 | 1857 - 566 pages
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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... 
