 | Half hours - 1856 - 676 pages
...will indeed dignify ami exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been...Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupitor, the planet of civi society and action : howbeit I do not mean, when I speak of use and action,... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1856 - 390 pages
...contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined together than they have been—a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets,...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action." This favourite doctrine and simile of Bacon, so fitting and urgent in an age whose retrospect was the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention; or a shop, for profit or sale; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...Creator and the relief of man's estate. But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt ""Imowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 900 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitiy conjoined and united together than they have been...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of... | |
 | Calcutta univ - 1859 - 254 pages
...life, God and angels only should be lookers-on; that contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet of rest, and Jupiter the planet of action.' It is in this conjunction, which seems to Bacon so desirable, that practical... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1859 - 612 pages
...is the more intimate and strict conjunction of contemplation and action ; a conjunction like that of Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action. But here, by use and action, we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre, — for that diverts... | |
 | Robert Demaus - 1860 - 580 pages
...is the more intimate and strict conjunction of contemplation and action ; a conjunction like that of Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action. But here, by use and action, we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre, — for that diverts... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. Howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of... | |
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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... 
