 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 pages
...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. l)ut lives, if they be well written, propounding to themselves a person to represent, in whom actions,... | |
 | Emma Marshall - American fiction - 1878 - 446 pages
...an action. The first we call chronicles, the second lives, and the third narrations or relations " Lives', if they be well written, propounding to themselves...private, have a commixture, must of necessity contain a true, native, and lively representation." — LORD BACON. LADY ALICE. TUDOR VILLA, yamtary, 1870. I... | |
 | William Minto - Authors, English - 1881 - 592 pages
...upon the smallest wires, maMina c minirnis suspendcns, it comes therefore to pass that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inicard resorts thereof. But lives, if they be well written, propounding to themselves a person to... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...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...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1884 - 570 pages
...smallest wires, maxima e minimi» suspe iuli-пя ; it cornos therefore to pass, that such hi.-»torios do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...if they be well written, propounding to themselves я person to represent in whom actions both greater and smaller, public and private, have a commixture,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 pages
...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...resorts thereof.* But Lives, if they be well written s, propounding to themselves a person to represent in whom actions both greater and smaller, public... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...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.2 But Lives, if they be well written', propounding to themselves a person to represent in whom... | |
 | Virginia Wales Johnson - Florence (Italy) - 1891 - 480 pages
...Austria. Said Lord Bacon : " The history of times rcpresenteth the magnitude of actions; but lives, propounding to themselves a person to represent, in...both greater and smaller, public and private, have a comixture, contain a more true, lively, and native representation. " The artists claim our interest,... | |
 | Mrs. Henry Pott - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 432 pages
...that Ho doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires,1 it comes to pass that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts (or springs) thereof. Insomuch that you may find a truer picture of hutnan life in some satires than... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 pages
...upon the smallest wires, maxima % minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...and private, have a commixture, must of necessity 10 contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations of actions,... | |
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... public faces and deportments of persons, and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters. But such being the workmanship of God, as He doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens,... 
