 | Grace Norton - 1908 - 258 pages
...commodities, and some came to make good cheer and meet their friends, and some came to look on." * But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on. Ib. (n, xx, 8). MONTAIGNE, Livre I, 26 (25). Nostre vie, disoit Pythagoras, retire à la grande et... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 788 pages
...the peddlers who brought bargains to the door on eunny afternoons. — Georg« Eliot. In this theater rs, which elevates the character and improves the heart. Ne lookers-on. — Pylhayvras. I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1908 - 776 pages
...peddlers who brought bargains to the door on sunny afternoons. — (Vforf/e Kfiot. In this theater rough which we look into eternity.— Iheight. The Bible is lookers-on. — Pt/thagornit. I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less nlone than... | |
 | 1994 - 412 pages
...altogether neglected. A preference is expressed for the active over the contemplative life, for " men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." Aristotle's reasons for preferring the contemplative life have respect to private good only. But the... | |
 | James Phinney Baxter - 1915 - 790 pages
...fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend he may quit the stage. Essay on Friendship. But men must know that in this Theatre of man's life, it is...reserved only for God and Angels to be lookers on. Advancement of Learning. All the world 'sa stage, And all the men and women merely players. As You... | |
 | Rolf Gruner - 1977 - 252 pages
...active life, and decides it against Aristotle, ' and Pythagoras' simile was rejected with the comment that 'in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the Angels to be lookers 25) on.' ' He thus raised precisely the objection that had already been anticipated... | |
 | 1925 - 790 pages
...germane both to his genius and his philosophy. Almost startling, yet true, are his own words, "Men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and the angels to be lookers-on". Certainly Bacon, with all his gift for rumination (he possessed nearly... | |
 | Catherine Drinker Bowen - 1993 - 294 pages
...sides; from time to time he justified this dual position. "In this theatre of man's life," he wrote, "it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." And again, "The most ancient and reverend philosophers and philosophical men did retire too easily... | |
 | Bruce Rich - 1994 - 396 pages
...strange new mathematical function. The Empire of Man Over Things As Francis Bacon so aptly stated, ". . . in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on." We at the World Bank are determined not to he onlookers. :o — Barber Conable, 1988 In one probably... | |
 | Leo Strauss - 1963 - 191 pages
...touching the preferment of the contemplative or active life; and decideth it against Aristotle . . . men must know, that in this theatre of man's life it is...reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on ...' Loc. cit., p. 421. In one of those chapters in his Politics (i. 10), which treat of the benefits... | |
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