 | 1984 - 440 pages
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 | 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... | |
 | Susanne Woods - 1984 - 336 pages
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 | 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),... | |
 | Raman Selden - 1988 - 584 pages
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 | Raman Selden - 1988 - 584 pages
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 | 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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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 life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 
