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The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 8
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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The Modern Language Review, Volume 7

1912 - 812 pages
...10), Bacon's Advancement of Learning, book i, ad init.: — '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 Archdeacon Hare's Sermon on the Law of Self Sacrifice : ' This is the golden chain of love...
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Literarhistorische forschungen, Volumes 52-54

1913 - 582 pages
...%gvaeii) Homers (Ilias VIII, 19) findet sich Adv. of L. p. 10. „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." Und ib. p. 109: „'Da fidei quae fidei sunt.' For the heathen themselves conclude äs much in that...
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Litterarhistorische Forschungen

Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...%f>vaEÍr¡ Homers (Ilias VIII, 19) findet sich Adv. of L. p. 10. „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." Und ib. p. 109: „'Da fidei quae fidei sunt.' For the heathen themselves conclude as much in that...
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Poems Published in 1842: With an Introduction & Notes

Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1914 - 476 pages
...Rowe and Webb quote Bacon, Advancement of Learning, i. 1 : ' 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.' 258. Avilion : or Avalon, a legendary island in the Western Ocean and the kingdom of Morgan le Fay....
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Of the Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 pages
...seeth the dependence of causes, and j the works of ProvidenceT then, according to the allegory of 1 the poets, he will easily believe that the highest...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. 1 To conclude therefore, let no man upon a weak , conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation...
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Toleration and Other Essays and Studies: Posthumous

John Bigelow - 1927 - 192 pages
...the highest cause, but when a man passeth on farther and seeth the dependence of causes on the ends of Providence; then according to the allegory of the...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." It is not until the ruling affection which inspires, and which we term the final motive known only...
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The Lost Language of Symbolism: An Inquiry Into the Origin of ..., Volume 1

Harold Bayley - 1912 - 394 pages
...passeth on farther and beholds the dependency, continuation and confederacy of causes, and the workes of Providence, then, according to the allegory of the Poets, he will easily believe that the highest linke of Nature's chains must needs be tyed to the foot of Jupiter's chaire." Tennyson expresses this...
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Empirical Logic and Public Debate: Essays in Honour of Else M. Barth

Erik C. W. Krabbe, Renée José Dalitz, Pier A. Smit - 1993 - 360 pages
...Nature, Scala Naturae, a ladder which could be ascended. And as the poets quoted by Francis Bacon said, 'the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' 4 As an almost inevitable consequence of the parallels between knowledge and morality we find that...
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Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer

Alexander Whyte - 1998 - 320 pages
...together, it must needs fly to Providence and Deity. Then, according to the allegory of the poets, he mil easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." We speak in that large and general way about what we call great students and great thinkers and great...
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The Major Works

Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...but when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence0 of causes0 and the works of Providence;0 then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain0 must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. To conclude therefore, let no man, upon a...
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