 | 1843 - 706 pages
...of his weighty and magnificent sentences, though the passage is rather hackneyed as a quotation. " The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | George Walker - 1825 - 668 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. >/ The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolnte variety, than can be found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more .absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be stiled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | James Barry - 1831 - 228 pages
...imitative arts ; speaking of poetry, he remarks most admirably and justly. " The use of thisfained historic hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the...in those points, wherein the nature of things doth denie it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soule: by reason whereof there is agreeable... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 526 pages
...poetry, and has thus recorded it : — ' The use of this feigned history * hath been, to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
 | Robert Montgomery - 1832 - 474 pages
...' The use of this feigned history* hath bcen, to give some satisfaction to the mind of man in tho;e points wherein the nature of things doth deny it,...inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agrceable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exaet goodness, and a more absolute... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...learning, and is nothing else but feigned history, which may be styled as well in prose as in verse. The use of this feigned history hath been to give...reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found... | |
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The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul... 
