 | 1856 - 792 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... | |
 | 1856 - 732 pages
...which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a causa why tho music ig sweeter afterward : so have I boon content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I sot before me thi ci)ii!Î!tion of tiiesií ti m ¿s, in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 686 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her third visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
 | 1858 - 1074 pages
...That noise or sound which musicians make while the; are tuning their instruments ; which is nothinx pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is tweeter afterwards."— Bae^n. " Music tuning as in tune's despite." — L. Hunt. Peculiar effects... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...239 The whole book is not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant...so have I been content to tune the instruments of thl muses, that they may play that have oetto hands. 8. Observations upon the prospects of the progress... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 pages
...not yet improved by the labor of man, he compared to the noise which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, " which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the tnnsid Is sweeter afterward ;" and at the close of his survey he predicted that " the third period... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 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 reckoned... | |
 | 1860 - 836 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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1861 - 652 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 pluy who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 492 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her third visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
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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... 
