 | 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 tho mountain's top of his exalted wit Saw it himself and showed us it. The poet however adds, that... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1878 - 830 pages
...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...border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." Kuno Fischer says that Bacon was... | |
 | Joseph Payne - 1845 - 490 pages
...wandering predecessors went, And like the old Hebrews many years did stray In deserts but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last ; The barren wilderness he passed, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain top of his exalted... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 614 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors: — " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...mountain top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shewed us it."* The writings of Bacon do not even abound with remarks so capable of being separated... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1846 - 618 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ancestors : — " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren...Of the blest promised land ; And from the mountain lop of Ms exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it."* The writings of Bacon do not even abound... | |
 | William Cooke Taylor - 1851 - 504 pages
...wilderness, he had pointed out the path. That glory was his, the neglect vcas his successors — ' Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain-top of his exalted... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1848 - 630 pages
...have taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises 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."* The writings of Bacon do not even abound with remarks so capable of being separated from the mass of... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 582 pages
...undertook the injur'd pupils' cause." The poet then goes on to state that the great philosopher, " - led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And, from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it."... | |
 | Charles Richard Weld - 1848 - 570 pages
...undertook the injur'd pupils' cause." The poet then goes on to state that the great philosopher, " led us forth at last, The barren wilderness he past; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land ; And, from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and shew'd us it."... | |
 | 1848 - 494 pages
...stray In deserts but of small extent, Hahnemann led us forth at last. The barren wilderness he passed ; Did on the very border stand Of the blest promised land, And from the mountain-top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself and showed us it. • Yes, Hahnemann showed us the... | |
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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... 
