 ... in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay there it may induce some oblivion of the highest cause; but when a man passeth on...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 36by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1876 - 320 pages
...for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay...highest cause ; but when a man passeth on farther, and sceth the dependence of causes and the works of Providence, then, according to the allegory of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1876 - 504 pages
...For in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay...oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence, then, according to the allegory... | |
 | John Churton Collins - 1891 - 244 pages
...Bacon's Advaneement of Learning, book i. ad init. — According to the allegory of the poets . . . the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair — or by a sentence in Arehdeacon Hare's Sermon on the Law of Self-Saerifice : — This is the golden... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1891 - 186 pages
...literature. Thus Bacon in his Advancement of Learning, i. 1. 3, says, "According to the allegory of the poets the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair " : cf. Adv. of L. ii. vi. 1. Jeremy Taylor writes "Faith is the golden chain to link the penitent... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 304 pages
...oblivion of the higheft caufe : but when a man pafleth on farther, and feeth the dependence of caufes and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory of the poets, he will eafily believe that the higheft link of Nature's chain muft needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's... | |
 | John Locke - 1894 - 516 pages
...for in the entrance to philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay...oblivion of the highest cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes, and the works of Providence ; then, according to the allegory... | |
 | Alfred Tennyson Baron Tennyson - 1894 - 348 pages
...those things >:e hung in air." Chaucer has "the fayre cheyne Of love," Knight's Tale, 2133; Bacon, "the highest link of nature's chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiters chair," Adv. of Learning, i. In Milton the world is attached to the universe by a golden chain,... | |
 | William Cowper - 1896 - 348 pages
...i: 'In the entrance of Philosophy, when the second causes, which are next unto the senses, do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay...will easily believe that the highest link of Nature's chair must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter's chair.' Bacon used nearly the same words again in... | |
 | Samuel Harris - 1896 - 602 pages
...religion; for in the entrance of philosophy, when the second causes which are next unto the senses do offer themselves to the mind of man, if it dwell and stay...the allegory of the poets, he will easily believe the highest link of Nature's chain must needs be tied to Jupiter's chair. To conclude, therefore, let... | |
 | Alexander Campbell Fraser - 1896 - 350 pages
...and stay there, it may induce some oblivion of the Highest Cause ; but when a man passeth on further, and seeth the dependence of causes and the works of...poets, he will easily believe that the highest link of nature,s chain must needs be tied to the foot of Jupiter,s chair." The natural and the theistic interpretations... | |
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