 The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...  Advancement of Learning - Page 101by Francis Bacon - 1869 - 379 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1819 - 640 pages
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 | 1843 - 706 pages
...the passage is rather hackneyed as a quotation. " The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. >/ The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolnte variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more .absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...of poetry, he remarks most admirably and justly. " The use of thisfained historic hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points, wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule: by reason whereof there is agreeable... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 526 pages
...poetry, and has thus recorded it : — ' The use of this feigned history * hath been, to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events... | |
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