 | Walter Begley - 1905 - 328 pages
...with his opinion that Bacon had this. He quotes Bacon's own words in reference to it, viz. ; — ' Man when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine...Faith, which Human Nature in itself could not obtain.' I believe he passed through a period of sceptical doubt and loose living and thinking in his earlier... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1908 - 412 pages
...on when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura ; 1 which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith whic.h huTnannatiire in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism is in all "respects' hateful, so in... | |
 | Charles William Pearson - 1908 - 280 pages
...put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God or superior being; which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain." and the sublime... | |
 | Francis Bacon, John Milton, Sir Thomas Browne - 1909 - 348 pages
...a man; who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura [better nature]; which courage is manifesdy such as that creature, without that confidence of...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathered a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism... | |
 | Carveth Read - 1909 - 352 pages
...definite the idea of personality is, the weaker are its functions. In his essay Of Atheism Bacon says : " Man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine...faith which human nature in itself could not obtain." Where will be his rest and assurance if the divine attributes are symbolical, he dare not say of what... | |
 | Clark Sutherland Northup, William Coolidge Lane, John Christopher Schwab - 1915 - 526 pages
...generosity he will put on, when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God; which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...a better nature than his own, could never attain." This confidence of a better nature is religious faith; and here it is that man begins to look beyond... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 806 pages
...on when he finds himself maintained by a man ; who to him is instead of a God, or mclior natura ; 1 which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it deprivcth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty. As it is in particular persons,... | |
 | John Matthews Manly - 1916 - 828 pages
...put on when he finds himself maintained by a man; who to him is instead of a God, or mdior natura ; 1 methinks would be enjoyment more than in this march...the railway, in the thoughts that shake mankind.' restcth and assurcth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human... | |
 | George McLean Harper - 1916 - 496 pages
...Mrs. Wordsworth, dated Rydal Mount, April 20, 1815. The passage from Bacon is to the effect that " Man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine...faith which human Nature in itself could not obtain," just as a dog, strengthened in heart by reliance upon a man, receives a confidence above its own natural... | |
 | Charles McClellan Stevens - 1918 - 386 pages
...clearness of purpose, quiet and ceaseless energy." Lord Bacon completes the great idea when he says, "Man when he resteth and assureth himself, upon divine...which Human Nature, in itself, could not obtain." Such has been true of every noble character in history, and it was brightly exemplified in the life... | |
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For take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, or melior natura, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence,... 
