 | sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...our ancestors : — " Bacon, like Moses, led as forth at last ; The barren wilderness he pass'd, . Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised...mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd as it.'" . COWIEY'I Oie to the Royal Society. This eloquent delineation is worthy of its illustrious... | |
 | James Machintosh - 1884 - 310 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge for the exaggerated praises br.slowrd on him by our ancestors : — ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the blest premised land ; And from the mountain top of his... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1834 - 394 pages
...taken too severe a revenge for the exaggerated praises bestowed on hi m by our ancestors : — . , - ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the blest premised land ; * And from the mountain top of his... | |
 | Maurice Cross - 1835 - 520 pages
...neglect, have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praise bestowed on him by our ancestors. " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." Cowley's Ode to the Royal Society. The writings of Bacon do not even abound with remarks so capable... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 388 pages
...acknowledged, and thus elegantly expressed, by Cowley, in an Ode to the Royal Society, then lately founded: — BACON, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, ', Saw it himself, and showed us it. HIS LIFE AND WORKS. 213 In... | |
 | 1835 - 916 pages
...the exaggerated praise bestowed on him by our ancestors. " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth atlas!, The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the I •!(•-! promised laud ; And from the mountain top of hi« exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it. In order to prove our position that Bacon's Philosophical Writings did accelerate the progress of physical... | |
 | Robert Walsh, Eliakim Littell, John Jay Smith - 1840 - 492 pages
...And, like lh' old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts of but small extent, Bacon, like .Muses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past,...border stand Of the blest promised land And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and show'd us it. But life did never to one man allow... | |
 | 1840 - 700 pages
...And, liketh' old Hebrews, many years did stray In desert« of but small extent, Hacon, like Mosc», led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he past, Did on the very border stand Of the blest prom is'd land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and show'd us Ц. But... | |
 | William Whewell - 1840 - 606 pages
...Bacon is like Moses, who led the Hebrews forth from the barren wilderness, and ascended Pisgah; — Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself and showed us it. The poet however adds, that Bacon... | |
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From these and all long errors of the way, In which our wandering predecessors went, And, like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray, In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last : The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the... 
