 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
 | Francis Bacon - Knowledge, Theory of - 1876 - 504 pages
...predominate over them : Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, the Sun, Venus, Mercury, and the Moon. Comp. p. 43: 'Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action.' [6] Compare Bacon's Letter to Lord Burghley (Life and Letters, i. 108): 'not as a man born under Sol,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 782 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 - Philosophy - 1877 - 1048 pages
...dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action mav be more nearly and straitly co* joined and united together than they have been ; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest jdanets, Saturn the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action.... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 476 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 beforementioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - Education - 1879 - 440 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 beforementioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 878 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... | |
 | James Harmon Hoose - Teaching - 1879 - 472 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 Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action. Ilowbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end beforemcntioiHMl of the applying... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Business ethics - 1879 - 432 pages
...life, God and angels only should be lookers-on ; that contemplation and action ought ever to be united, a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn the planet of rest, and Jupiter the planet of action." It is in this conjunction, which seems to Bacon so desirable, that practical... | |
 | Blackie and son, ltd - 1880 - 406 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; a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets—Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 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... | |
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