 | Theodore S. Hamerow - 1987 - 292 pages
...while it had produced good historians, in the main their modest function had been, in Bacon's phrase, "to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands." After such an age of accumulation, sifting, and criticism of the materials, "the natural next development... | |
 | Nieves Mathews - 1996 - 620 pages
...as he called the future generations, to continue the work he had hardly been able to begin. 'I have been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands' - this is the leitmotiv of his prefaces and letters. He was well aware that what he wanted to achieve... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 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 (1996), p. 288) As Kevin Dunn has noted, this topos of humility and prolepsis plays a crucial... | |
 | 2003 - 596 pages
...better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments So I have been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands" (Francis Bacon). SIR UN BRAHMACHARI, KT., MA. MD, PH.D., FSMF. FASB. FNI Upendranath Brahmachari was... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...judge of his own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are hankful To posterity and distant ages Bacon bequeathed his good name, and posterity and distant ages will do... | |
 | Joseph Needham - 806 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. Francis Bacon, Of the Advancement of Learning EPILEGOMENA The Two Problems of Embryology Embryology... | |
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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... 
