 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | Alexander Young - 1840 - 256 pages
...father of inductive philosophy, as well as of this his illustrious pupil. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | 1842 - 796 pages
...illustration so curious, that we shall employ his words in preference to our own. " That," said he, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh, J. G. Marvin - 1843 - 130 pages
...unpublished Lectures, which, I doubt not, will be quite acceptable to the reader, and we therefore present them : — " In the examination of laws, I shall not...knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly compared and united than they have hitherto been.' These are the words of Lord Bacon ; and in his spirit,... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...sale ; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak... | |
 | 1849 - 838 pages
...craving of his soul for that species of culture which books cannot give. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | 1849 - 848 pages
...craving of his soul for that species of culture which books cannot give. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | 1849 - 636 pages
...cannot fail profoundly to interest every lover of abstract speculation. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 pages
...sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate. But might be defaced ; and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
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But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet... 
