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History of the University and Colleges of Cambridge: Including Notices ... - Page 224
by George Dyer - 1814 - 452 pages
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more...
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Horæ Subsecivæ, Volume 2

John Brown - 1861 - 516 pages
...Poesy, Painting, Music, &c.) " hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A...
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Spare Hours, Volume 1

John Brown - 1862 - 488 pages
...Poesy, Painting, Music, <fc.) "hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit uf man, A...
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Encyclopaedia cambrensis: Y gwyddoniadur cymreig

John Parry - 1863 - 780 pages
...The use of this feigned history hath been to gire some shadow of satisfaction to the mint! of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior tu the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more...
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Encyclopaedia cambrensis: Y gwyddoniadur cymreig

John Parry - 1863 - 796 pages
...The use of this feigned history hath been to give eomo shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man, a more...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more...
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Macmillan's Magazine, Volume 11

1865 - 538 pages
...For " the use of art," as Bacon tells us, " hath been to give some shadow of " satisfaction to the mind of man in " those points wherein the nature of " things doth deny it : — a more ample "greatness, a more exact goodness, a " more absolute variety, than can be " found...
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Nature and Art, Volume 1

1866 - 346 pages
...that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more...
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Nature and art [ed. by F.B. Ward].

Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...that the use of art and poesy " hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of men on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being, in proportion, inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more...
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The Authorship of Shakespeare

Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...prose as in verse. 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 1 AIlI-. of Learn., Book II. 3 Lib. II. c. 13. inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof...
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