 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
 | Henry Wright Phillott - 1849 - 224 pages
...cessation declared as much. Life of King Henry VII. H, The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in...being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason thereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and... | |
 | John Harris - 1849 - 526 pages
...finely said of poetry* as a daughter of imagination, may be justly affirmed of the imagination itself. " There is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more 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 - 1850 - 590 pages
...which may be styled as well in prose as in Tse. The use of this feigned history hath been to I give ormulas. Antitheta are theses argued "pro et contra;"...laborious : but, in such as are able to do it, to infe- -1 rior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample... | |
 | Maria Georgina Shirreff Grey, Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff - 1851 - 496 pages
...as Lord Bacon beautifully expresses it, " to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny...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 - 1851 - 376 pages
...Ufe of this Feigned Hiftory hath been to give fome fhadow of fatisfaftion to the mind of Man in thofe points wherein the Nature of things doth deny it, the World being in proportion inferior to the foul ; by reafon whereof there is, agreeable to the fpirit of Man, a more ample Greatnefs, a more exaft... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 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... | |
 | 1853 - 604 pages
...of things ;" " the use of feigned history is to give to the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it." The battle, we say, must be fought with these phrases. Nor is the battle confined to the art of painting.... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1854 - 514 pages
...he styled [written] 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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1877 - 394 pages
...shades. — Virgil (Kennedy). P. 65, n. 1, 1. 1. — 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 - 1854 - 894 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... | |
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