 But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet...  Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh - Page 115by Sir James Mackintosh - 1836Full view - About this book
 | B. H. G. Wormald - 1993 - 436 pages
...is no less applicable in the Know Thyself enterprise than it is 'towards natural philosophy'. 'But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been. '10 In both programmes this pronouncement... | |
 | Daniel N. Robinson - 1995 - 390 pages
...to the benefit and use of men ... for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; and conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Richard Hoggart - 372 pages
...or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if con-templation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been' (The Advancement of Learning, 1605,... | |
 | Susanna Åkerman - 1998 - 284 pages
...ruled by Saturn and the civil society and action governed by Jupiter. For, as Bacon writes, we will, dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 pages
...or sale, and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightway conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.0 But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly0 conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - 2005 - 428 pages
...relief of man's estate." Above all else, he had to convince them that improving the human condition "is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been."40 More than any other figure, Bacon... | |
 | David Read - 2005 - 190 pages
...profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Stephen John Campbell, Stephen L. Campbell - 2004 - 430 pages
...or sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1928 - 506 pages
...or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
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