| 1801 - 446 pages
...knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it*— 'and the belief of truth, which is the en;oyment of it, is the sovereign good of human nature- * The...work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. * These two sentences are transcribed, verbatim, from the noble author. They might be rendered more... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 586 pages
...equal contempt upon the the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of the truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature." BACON'S ESSAYS. Is it not painful then to know, that, " The road to moral truth has been left in such... | |
| Charles Edward De Coetlogon - Christianity - 1807 - 588 pages
...equal contempt upon the the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief or the truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature." BAcON'S ESSAYS. Is it not painful then to know, that, " The road to moral truth has been left in such... | |
| Manual - Essays - 1809 - 288 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, aud the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath-work ever smce, is the illumination of his spirit. First, he breathed Alight upon the face... | |
| George Stanley Faber - Holy Spirit - 1814 - 282 pages
...'-.vT'jv. Just. Mart. Dial. eum Tryph. p. 173. " The first ereature of God in the works of the clays, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever sinee is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the faee of the matter of ehaos... | |
| Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1818 - 310 pages
...love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...sense ; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. First, he breathed light upon the face... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1818 - 312 pages
...love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of Truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...sense ; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath-work ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. First, he OF TRUTH. 3 breathed light upon... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1822 - 238 pages
...the love making or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign...his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of the Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light... | |
| Industrial arts - 1824 - 726 pages
...leva- ranking or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the preserver of it ; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign good of human nature.— Lord Ba^on. No. 28.J SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1824. F Price 3rf. SKATERS' LIFE-PRESERVER. GENTLEMEN ;—... | |
| Presbyterian Church in the U.S. - 1825 - 594 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the sovereign...of God in the works of the days, was the light of sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbathwork, ever since, is the illumination of his... | |
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