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" And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. "
The Works of Francis Bacon: Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Albans, and Lord ... - Page 88
by Francis Bacon - 1824
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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 pages
...raife and erect the Mind, by fubmitting the fhews of things to the defires of the Mind ; whereas reafon doth buckle and bow the Mind unto the Nature of things. And we fee, that by thefe infinuations and congruities with man's nature and pleafure, joined alfo with the...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy which...
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The two books of Francis Bacon: of the proficience and advancement of ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. 3. The division of Poesy which...
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Polonius: A Collection of Wise Saws and Modern Instances

Edward FitzGerald - 1852 - 172 pages
...doth raise and erect the mind," says Bacon, " by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." But Sir Philip Sidney says, the poet shows the " nature of things" as much as the reasoner, though...
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Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind

Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded."] — Advancement of Learning....
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 pages
...because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting' the shows of things to the desires of the ind ; wher hud access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded....
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 528 pages
...reference to the imagination, " which faculty submitteth the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things." Or we may vary the phrase, and, with Coleridge, call it, "the vision and faculty divine;" or, with...
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Essays Biographical and Critical: Chiefly on English Poets

David Masson - 1856 - 494 pages
...divineness, because it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind, whereas Reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things In this third part of learning, which is Poesy, I can report no deficience. For, being as a plant that...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...translation to explain that under this head satires, elegies, epigrams, and odes are included. the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy which...
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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...the translation to explain that under this head satires, , epigrams, and odes are included. * 4 the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind...hath with music, it hath had access and estimation in rude times and barbarous regions, where other learning stood excluded. The division of poesy which...
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