 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...the other prescribing rules how to subdue, apply, and accommodate the will of man thereunto." " Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." " As that health of body is best which is ablest to endure all alterations and extremities ; so likewise... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1892 - 402 pages
...life of selfish isolation, Christianity gave the death-blow to the doctrines of half the schools. "Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Jkcon was no philosopher. Indeed, the questions of philosophy, if they had presented themselves to... | |
 | David Nasmith - 1892 - 316 pages
...the other prescribing rules how to subdue, apply, and accommodate the will of man thereunto." " Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." " As that health of body is best which is ablest to endure all alterations and extremities ; so likewise... | |
 | 1893 - 342 pages
...So constant and unwearied in work was he that possibly he had in mind Lord Bacon's •words : " Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Like the Great Physician, of whom he did not disdain to be an humble follower, he was constantly going... | |
 | Rev. James Wood - 1893 - 694 pages
...quietness. I-'eltham. In this blunder still you find, / All think their little set mankind. Hannah Mote. In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to look on. /^ythacoras. In this wild element of a life, man has to 40 struggle onwards ; now fallen,... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - 1894 - 604 pages
...he can always tind food and raiment, though it may not be of the choicest description. — (juctlie. In this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God nnd angels to be lookers-on. — Pythagoras. What a solemn nnd striking admonition to youth is that... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...whole play of life is given a setting, that embraces the heavens, and in a single sentence : " But man must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on." And with true poetic instinct, he pertinently asks : , " Who taught the... | |
 | Royal Institution of Great Britain - 1896 - 740 pages
...longer," and the speech of Pythagoras to Hiero, " At the Olympian games there are mere spectators, but in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on." This is Bacon's Philanthropia : like Socrates he thought it his prime duty to inquire into the agencies... | |
 | Edwin Reed - 1897 - 356 pages
...the whale in size, the dog in smell, the flame of gunpowder in rapid extension." 6 " Men must learn that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on."' " The King slept out the sobs of his subjects, until he was awakened... | |
 | James Hayden Tufts - 1898 - 122 pages
...nature of good enables us to see the inadequacy of any theory that places good in contemplation — "in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on" — or in private pleasure or tranquility — "as if it were not a thing much more happy to fail in... | |
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But men must know, that in this theatre of man's life, it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on... 
