 | 1900 - 570 pages
...nothing pleasant to heare, but yet is a cause why the musique is sweeter afterwards. So haue I beene content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that haue better hands. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning... | |
 | 1905 - 958 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... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...nothing pleasant to heare, but yet is a cause why the musique is sweeter afterwards. So haue I beene content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that haue better hands. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1909 - 668 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant...is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So I have been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands."2... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are y e V. bauds. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning hath made her... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 pages
...Bacon lack assurance ; but with prescient vision, he beholds rising before him man's future estate. 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... | |
 | 1923 - 1190 pages
...We have had our historians, but in the main our modest functions has been, in Lord Bacon's phrase, "to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands." The Historian of the Future After such an age of accumulation, sifting. and criticism, of the materials,... | |
 | 1924 - 672 pages
...deeper insight and wider outlook than we have had— we whose function it has been, as I have said, "to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands." Among those whom this occasion has brought together are academics who, upon a quite reasonable estimate,... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1926 - 666 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant...is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So I have been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands."3... | |
 | William Bateson, Beatrice Bateson - 1928 - 506 pages
...judge of his own work), 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 (Advancement of Learning) . 1 None were used. St John's College, Cambridge, 30 July 1893. Dear... | |
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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... 
