 | Thomas Budd Shaw - 1849 - 478 pages
...from the errors of his time, yet clearly foresaw the gradual disappearance of those errors : — " Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren wilderness he pass'd Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promis'd land, And from the Pisgah-height of his... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1850 - 597 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... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1851 - 854 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1853 - 716 pages
...forth at last ; The barren wilderness he pass'd Did on the very border stand Of the blest promis'd land, And from the mountain'« top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, and show'd us it. But life did never to one man allow Time to discover worlds and conquer too ; Nor can... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1853 - 1070 pages
...WM his successors'. " Bacon, like Mosep. led us forth &t last, The barren Wilderness he past, PHii on the very border stand Of the blest Promised Land, And from the mountain-top of hû exalted wit, Saw it himself, and showed us it." IV-Vire making his present proposition,... | |
 | Robert Peel - 1853 - 884 pages
...had pointed out the path. That glory was his, the neglect was his successors'. "Bacon. like Motes, led us forth at last. The barren Wilderness he past, Did on the reiy border stand Of the blest Pmmised Land, And from the mountain- top of his exalted wit. Saw it... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1854 - 898 pages
...taken too severe a revenge, for the exaggerated praises bestowed on him by our ances-« tors:— " 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... | |
 | William Whewell - 1860 - 604 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 ns it. The poet however adds, that Bacon... | |
 | Henry Tullidge - 1863 - 454 pages
...wandering predecessors went, And like th' old Hebrews, many years did stray In deserts of but small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth at last; The barren...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 show'd us it." The... | |
 | James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 pages
...forth at last ; The barren wilderncss he pass'd, Did on the very border stand Of the bless'd promis'd land, And from the mountain top of his exalted wit Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But life did ncver to one man allow Time to discover worldз and conquer too. A popular... | |
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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... 
