 But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, the planet...  Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 52by George Lillie Craik - 1846Full view - About this book
 | George Burnett - Authors, English - 1813 - 550 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...and action : howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of usa and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ;. for... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - 324 pages
...more intimate and strict conjunction of contemplation and action ;ta conjunction like that of Sa turn the planet of rest and contemplation; and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action. But here by use and action, we do not mean the applying of knowledge to lucre; for that diverts the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | 1838 - 892 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of t1 1 two highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been;...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 520 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if con" templation and action may be more nearly and " strongly conjoined and united together, than they " have been:...Jupiter the planet of civil " society and action," he, in the year 1605, when he was 44 years of age, published his Advancement of Learning. It is entitled... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Learning and scholarship - 1825 - 428 pages
...indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if con" templation and action may be more nearly and " strongly conjoined and united together, than they " have been...Jupiter the planet of civil " society and action," he, in the year 1605, when he was 44 years of age, published his Advancement of Learning. It is entitled... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 536 pages
...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action." (b) And in his enquiry into action and contemplation, after objecting to Aristotle's preference of... | |
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