 That if Hiero were ever at the Olympian games, he knew the manner, that some came to try their fortune for the prizes, and some came as merchants to utter their commodities, and some came to make good cheer and meet their friends, and some came to look...  The Works - Page 421by Francis Bacon - 1859Full view - About this book
 | Mark Harvey Liddell - 1902 - 340 pages
...his " beholding angels." I need only put these ideas together in the form (it is Bacon's, not mine) " But men must know that in this theatre of man's Life,...reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on " to make your human soul fairly tingle with emotion, though you are this high-sounding personage who... | |
 | Mark Harvey Liddell - 1902 - 336 pages
...his " beholding angels." I need only put these ideas together in the form (it is Bacon's, not mine) " But men must know that in this theatre of man's Life,...reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on " to make your human soul fairly tingle with emotion, though you are this high-sounding personage who... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1902 - 478 pages
...the Great Seigneour's ? ' " — Charge touching Duels (1613). 133 Tin; WORLD, A STAGE From Bacon " Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on." — Advancement of Learning (1603-5). From S1iake-speare " All the world... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...not altogether neglected. A preference is expressed for the active over the contemplative life, for " men must know that in this theatre of man's life it...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Aristotle's reasons for preferring the contemplative life have respect to private good only. But the... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend he may quit the stage. Essay on Friendship. But men must know that in this Theatre of man's life,...reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on. Advancement of Learning. All the world 'sa stage, And all the men and women merely players. As You... | |
 | Rolf Gruner - 1977 - 252 pages
...active life, and decides it against Aristotle, ' and Pythagoras' simile was rejected with the comment that 'in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the Angels to be lookers 25) on.' ' He thus raised precisely the objection that had already been anticipated... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...onlooker was germane both to his genius and his philosophy. Almost startling, yet true, are his own words, "Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on". Certainly Bacon, with all his gift for rumination (he possessed nearly... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...sides; from time to time he justified this dual position. "In this theatre of man's life," he wrote, "it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." And again, "The most ancient and reverend philosophers and philosophical men did retire too easily... | |
 | Bruce Rich - 1994 - 396 pages
...strange new mathematical function. The Empire of Man Over Things As Francis Bacon so aptly stated, ". . . in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." We at the World Bank are determined not to he onlookers. :o — Barber Conable, 1988 In one probably... | |
 | Leo Strauss - 1963 - 191 pages
...touching the preferment of the contemplative or active life; and decideth it against Aristotle . . . men must know, that in this theatre of man's life...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on ...' Loc. cit., p. 421. In one of those chapters in his Politics (i. 10), which treat of the benefits... | |
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