 THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a college, instituted for the interpreting of nature, and the producing of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men; under the name of Solomon's House,...  London society - Page 1531862Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 pages
...chaplain and literary executor, prefixed to it this note: 'This fable my Lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a...producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Salomon's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works. And even so far his... | |
 | Marsha Keith Schuchard - 2002 - 872 pages
...seen the manuscript. In The New Atlantis Bacon appealed to James's Solomonic ideals when he proposed "a college instituted for the interpreting of nature...producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Salomon's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works."33 In the fable, a party... | |
 | Bronwen Price - 2002 - 226 pages
...programme. Its truncated state notwithstanding, he introduces the New Atlantis as a 'Fable' showing 'a Model or Description of a College, instituted for...interpreting of Nature, and the Producing of Great and Maruellous Works, for the Benefit of Men' . He also suggests that there is a practical objective for... | |
 | Jill Phillips Ingram - 2006 - 196 pages
...William Rawley, as a "fable" that contains a "model." "This fable my Lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a...producing of great and marvellous works for the benefit of men, under the name of Salomon's House, or the College of Six Days' Works," Rawley noted. And even... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...philosophy " NEW ATLANTIS. A WORK UNFINISHED. TO THE READER. THIS fable my lord devised, to the end that he u men, under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Day's Works. And even so far his... | |
 | Paul Monroe - 1911 - 736 pages
...concerning which Bacon's first editor, Wm. Rawley, says: " This fable my lord devised, to the end that he might exhibit therein a model or description of a...of great and marvellous works, for the benefit of men; under the name of Solomon's House, or the College of the Six Days' Works." In truly modern fashion... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2001 - 136 pages
...Fable my Lord devised to the end that He might exhibite therein a Modell or Description of a Colledge instituted for the Interpreting of Nature and the Producing of Great and Marvellous WorUg for the Benefit of Men : under the name of Salomon's House, or the Colledge of the Six Dayes'... | |
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