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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. "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 28
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Lord Chancellor of England, Volume 16

Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...for what are words but the images of matter ? and except they be animated with the spirit of reason, to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Demetrius the grammarian finding in the temple of Delphos a knot of philosophers chatting together,...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity for words are...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. (a) See note (A) at the end. 2. Origin of the prevalence of delicate learning in late times (b) ...........
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: A New Edition:

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...learning, of which Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem ; for words are but the images of matter, and to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." (b) These different subjects are classed under the quaint observatione dignum (licet nobis modernis...
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Materials for thinking, extracted from the works of ancient and modern ...

1837 - 352 pages
...affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalian's frenzy is a good emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture....
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Bibliotheca Sacra and Theological Review, Volume 28

1871 - 870 pages
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is hut a letter. It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are...except they have life of reason and invention, to full in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." — Bacon's Works, Vol. ii. pp....
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Bacon; His Writings, and His Philosophy, Volume 1

George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 732 pages
...seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emhlem or portraiture of this vanity ; for words are hut the images of matter, and except they have life of...yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to he condemned, to clothe and adorn the ohscurity, even of philosophy itself, with sensihle and plausihle...
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Half-hours with the best authors, selected by C. Knight, Volume 3

Half hours - 1847 - 580 pages
...letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity J ; for words are but the images of matter ; and except...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. * Fluency., f Donkey. + He is said to have fallen in love with a beautiful statue which he had himself...
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Essays, Theological and Miscellaneous, Reprinted from the Princeton Review ...

1847 - 632 pages
...study words and not matter. It seems to me that Pygmalion's phrensy is a good emblem of this fault ; for words are but the images of matter; and except...they have life of reason and invention, to fall in lore with them, ia all one as to fall in love with a picture." ject of man's moral agency is a matter...
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Faust, a tragedy, tr. by capt. [C.H.] Knox

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 360 pages
...affectations as capable of no diTineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy ia a good emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all as one as to fall in love with a...
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Faust: A Tragedy

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - 1847 - 366 pages
...affectations as capable of no divineness. Indeed, it seems to me, that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem and portraiture of this vanity ; for words are but the images of matter, and except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all as one as to fall in love with a...
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