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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... "
Glasgow Mechanics' Magazine, and Annals of Philosophy - Page 311
1825
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Bacon's Novum organum

Francis Bacon - 1878 - 678 pages
...wandring Praedecessors went. And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In Desarts but of 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 shew'd us it." It...
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Novum organum

Francis Bacon - 1878 - 686 pages
...wandring Praedecessors went. And like th" old Hebrews many years did stray In Desarts but of 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 shew'd us it.' It...
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The Handbook of Specimens of English Literature: Selected from the Chief ...

Joseph Angus - 1880 - 726 pages
...his own time and actions, as far as may consist with the laws of God and of his country. Of Liberty. 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 shewed us it. Ode to the Royal Society. The...
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Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 536 pages
...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...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. But...
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The English Poets: Ben Jonson to Dryden

Thomas Humphry Ward - 1880 - 528 pages
...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...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. But...
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Chambers's Cyclopædia of English Literature: A History ..., Volumes 1-2

Robert Chambers - 1880 - 842 pages
...but of small extent, Bacon, like Moses, led us forth ut last; The barren wilderness he passed, Did ou the very border stand Of the blest promised land. And from the mountain's top of his exalted wit, Saw it himself, auc! shewed us it, But life did never to one man...
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A Popular History of Science

Robert Routledge - 1881 - 748 pages
...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's top of his...
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The English Poets: Selections with Critical Introductions by ..., Volume 2

Matthew Arnold - 1882 - 524 pages
...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...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. But...
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The Journal of Philology, Volume 10

William George Clark, John Eyton Bickersteth Mayor, William Aldis Wright, Ingram Bywater, Henry Jackson - 1882 - 324 pages
...stars, and the sun in all its splendour. In short, he says of himself what Cowley said of Bacon : " 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. But...
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...wandering Predecessors went, And like th' old Hebrews many years did stray In Desarts but of 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 Mountains top of his exalted Wit,7 Saw it himself, and shew'd us it. But...
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