 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some ohlivion of the highest cause; hut when a man passeth on farther, and seeth the dependence...according to the allegory of the poets, he will easily helieve that the highest link of nature's chain must needs he tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1847 - 548 pages
...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 * Rawley. Oh for a Boswell to have recorded the conversation, when he had Raleigh, Ben Jonson, Selden,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 654 pages
...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...dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, accordmg to the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain... | |
 | George Sandby - 1848 - 402 pages
...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 ;" whether this be correct, I know not; but it is a common remark, that they, who by the habitual course... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...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 further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do oner themselves to the mind of man, enter. The traitor in factions liphtly goeth away...then by a mans sHfe. Letters are pood when a man wo nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair." §3. THE COLOURS OF GOOD AND EVIL.... | |
 | Adam Sedgwick - 1850 - 786 pages
...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 passcth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according... | |
 | James McCosh - 1851 - 528 pages
...but when a man pass* Taylor's Nat. Hist of Enthusiasm. f See Letters between Leibnitz and Clarke. eth on farther, and seeth the dependence of causes and...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair."* There are some judicious remarks... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 504 pages
...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 further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, — then, according to the... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1851 - 510 pages
...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 further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, — then, according to the... | |
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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... 
