 | Thomas Pearson - 1863 - 344 pages
...continues to govern the world which He has made than that He has abandoned it. " When a man," says' Bacon, "seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence,...the poets, he will easily believe that the highest * Smith's Relations of Faith and Philosophy, p. 13. + Indications of the Creator, p. «. link of nature's... | |
 | Charles Dexter Cleveland - 1863 - 788 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 works of Providence, tlren, according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's... | |
 | Columbia College (New York, N.Y.) - 1865 - 128 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...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." But it may be replied that the foregoing reasoning... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 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 same doctrine is more distinctly expressed in his interpretation of the fable of Pan, thus : —... | |
 | Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke) - 1870 - 252 pages
...to Homer, Iliad, viii. 19. and Mr. Wright also gives Plato, Theaet, i. 153 c. Bacon's words are, " the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe, that the highest link of nature's chain need be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair " : and " The heathen themselves conclude as much in that... | |
 | Fulke Greville (Baron Brooke) - 1870 - 290 pages
...to Homer, Iliad, viii. 19. and Mr. AV right also gives Plate, Theaet, i. 163 e. Baeon's words are, "the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe, that the highest link of nature's ehain need bo tied to the foot of Jupiter's ehair " : and " The heathen themselves eonelude as mneh... | |
 | American Whig Society - 1871 - 290 pages
...and stay there, it may indeed induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; " but where a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.", No ! depend upon it, religion has nothing to fear from learning. Ignorance is her most dangerous foe.... | |
 | George Berkeley - 1871 - 528 pages
...Fire, itself connected as an effect with the Supreme Active Intelligence. 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. a/Learning,?. 1 2.) * I have not seen this work. I am indebted for an account of it to Dr.... | |
 | Nicholas Bishop - 1871 - 408 pages
...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...the poets, he will easily believe that the highest of Nature's chain must be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."— Bacon. " There is a higher government... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 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.' 2 Leucippus] A Grecian philosopher, one of Zeno's pupils. He originated the atomic philosophy, which... | |
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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... 
