| Sir Henry Craik - 1913 - 624 pages
...? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| Max freiherr von Waldberg - 1913 - 374 pages
...(„It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture;"*1, hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen. Adv. p. 253 f. sucht Bacon... | |
| 1913 - 582 pages
...(„It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...and invention, to fall in love with them is all one äs to fall in love with a picture;"\ hat Bacon wohl auch in den Metamorphosen (X, 243 ff.) gelesen.... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1915 - 272 pages
...for words are but the images T / of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven- ,. tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. t(dcn\ - »•»•** £• / .'••<-,.But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned,... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1915 - 266 pages
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : l for words are but the images , of matter; and except they have life of reason and inven-) tion, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love / with a picture. But yet notwithstanding... | |
| George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 pages
...consumed ten years in reading Cicero." ' "Ass! " (in Greek and Latin). 4 To a greater or less extent. they have life of reason and invention, to fall in...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
| 1925 - 790 pages
...of Learning" that "the first distemper of learning is when men study words and not matter; for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture". Again in the "Advancement of Learning" he referred to rhetoric as "an empty and verbal art". Sensitiveness... | |
| Keir Elam - 1984 - 360 pages
...'Here, therefore, is the first distemper of learning, when men study words and not matter; ... for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture' (1605: 24-5). The inaugurating gesture of Bacon's scientific enterprise, logically, is the classification... | |
| Brian Vickers - 1986 - 428 pages
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but images of matter; and except they have life of reason...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (Ill, 284) Notes 1 Robin Horton, "African Traditional Thought and Modern Science," Africa, 37 (1967),... | |
| Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 pages
...letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity: for words are but the images of matter; and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity... | |
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