 | Gilbert Wakefield - 1804 - 590 pages
...deportments of persons, and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters. But lives, if they be well written, propounding to...necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation.'1 But of all those biographical relations, which have contributed so much to inform... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens : it comes therefore to pass, that Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. — LORD BACON. MANKIND in general are so little in the habit of looking steadily at their own meaning,... | |
 | Benjamin Franklin - Philosophers - 1818 - 566 pages
...wires, maxima e minimis suspendens ; it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business, than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation." Of the truth of this sagacious remark, a more convincing evidence can hardly be adduced than the Memoirs... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1818 - 352 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens: it comes therefore to pass, that Histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation.—LORD BACON. MANKIND in general are so little in the habit of looking steadily at... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspenders, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...(suspending great things from small), it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations of actions, as the War of Peloponnesus, the Expedition of Cyrus Minor,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...wires, " maxima e minimis suspendens," it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations of actions, as the War of Peloponnesus, the Expedition of Cyrus Minor,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...wire?, " maxima e minimis suspendens," it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward...contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations of actions, as the War of Peloponnesus, the Expedition of Cyrus Minor,... | |
| |
God, as he doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof. But lives, if they be well... 
