 | Francis Bacon - 1895 - 430 pages
...work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are in tuning their instruments : which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...condition of these times, in which learning hath made her 30 third visitation or circuit in all the qualities thereof ; as the excellency and vivacity of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 462 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...third visitation or circuit, in all the qualities thereof; as the excellency and vivacity of the wits of this age ; the noble helps and lights which... | |
 | 1900 - 570 pages
...nothing pleasant to heare, but yet is a cause why the musique is sweeter afterwards. So haue I beene content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that haue better hands. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her third visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
 | Robert D. Blackman - 1908 - 328 pages
...nothing pleasant to heare, but yet is a cause why the musique is sweeter afterwards. So haue I beene content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that haue better hands. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning... | |
 | Jean Jules Jusserand - 1909 - 668 pages
...own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...is a cause why the music is sweeter afterwards. So I have been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands."2... | |
 | Edward George Harman - 1914 - 632 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instrument of the Muses, that they may play that have better hands. In his dealings in the practical... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 714 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their mat thereof — • as the excellency and vivacity of the wits of this age; the noble helps and lights... | |
 | Edwin Greenlaw, James Holly Hanford - 1919 - 712 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their 19 bauds. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning hath made her... | |
 | Anne Elizabeth Burlingame - 1920 - 246 pages
...Bacon lack assurance ; but with prescient vision, he beholds rising before him man's future estate. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times in which learning seems to have now made her third visitation to men; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
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I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, (si nunquam fallit imago] as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to... 
