 | James McCosh - 1880 - 572 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...believe that the highest link of nature's chain must needsbe tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair. "£ • See Letters between Leibnitz and Clarke. f Do... | |
 | George Dana Boardman - 1880 - 356 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."-(" ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING," Book... | |
 | 1881 - 674 pages
...from the ' Iliad ' (VIII, 19), read by the light of Bacon's words, ' 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.' ('Advancement of Learning' I. 1. 3.) To come to what is more relative to the present study, the thoughts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 324 pages
...there, it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and sceth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence,...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' [14] l.«-m IPIMI-. &c. : The founder of the atomic theory, which was worked out by Democritus ; Democritus... | |
 | Noah Porter - 1882 - 530 pages
...it dwell and stay in them, 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." PROFESSOR HUXLEY'S EXPOSITION OF HUME'S PHILOSOPHY. 1 PROFESSOR HUXLEY is always an interesting writer,... | |
 | Emelyn W. Washburn - 1882 - 254 pages
...and seeth the dependance of causes and the works of Providence, then he, according to the allegory, will easily believe that the highest link of nature's...must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." But I cannot close this sketch without a word on a point perhaps of more interest to the general mind... | |
 | William Page Wood Baron Hatherley - 1883 - 354 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.' ' In fact,' said the lecturer, ' a little reflection would suffice to show that no inorganised object... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 436 pages
...of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes^.a.nd, the works of Providence, then,, according to the allegory...Jupiter's chair. To conclude therefore, let no man urjpn a weak conceit of sobriety or an ill-applied moderation think or maintain, that a man can search... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - 438 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...Providence, then, according to the allegory of the poets, he l ^ will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain ~"~~must needs be tied to the foot... | |
 | William Kitchen Parker - 1885 - 290 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 the works of Providence ; then, accordingto the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain... | |
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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... 
