 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments,- which it nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards : so have 1 been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands, 8.... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1848 - 426 pages
...instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which Learning... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...governeth : hereof I to speak, because I will not intermingle matter with matter of general learning. have I concluded this portion of learning touching...been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, lhat they may play that have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...239 The. whole book is not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are 8. Observations upon the prospecte of the progress of knowledge. REVEALED BELIOION 239 1. It is the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...but excel the civil laws in fitness for the government; for the civil law was, " N'on hos qua?situm bout Bartholomew-tide. 1 been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands. And... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...writing seemeth to me . . . not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant...Muses, that they may play that have better hands. — Bacon (Adv. of Learning). P. 369, n. A, 1. 4. — In some manuscripts, axioms X. and XI. are 1... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1855 - 530 pages
...writing seemeth to me not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant...why the music is sweeter afterwards. So have I been from which the dates can be gathered, the study of the author's mind, and of the course and changes... | |
 | Edward Tagart - 1855 - 524 pages
...difficulties, which such information would help to remove. * Works, 4to, vol. ip 57. t Ib. vol. i. pp. 72, 73, content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands." The first part was but a prelude to the second ; the ' Instauratio Magna, or Novum Organum for the... | |
 | Elias Lyman Magoon - 1856 - 460 pages
...instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which Learning... | |
 | Freeman Hunt, Thomas Prentice Kettell, William Buck Dana - 1856 - 812 pages
...instrumants ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which Learning... | |
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I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, si nunquam fallit imago, as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are in tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant... 
