 | Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 434 pages
...of truth, shall beget hopes aud beliefs of strange and impossible shapes. " For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." — BACON. " High speculations," says JEREMY TIYLOR, " are barren as the tops of cedars, buI the fundamentals... | |
 | Chandos Leigh - English poetry - 1839 - 430 pages
...of truth, shall beget hopes and beliefs of strange and impossible shapes. " For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced."—BACON. of cedars, bin the fundamentals of Christianity are fruitful as the valleys or the... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
 | John Horne Tooke - 1840 - 806 pages
...cognitione dissolvi posse intelligeremus."—JC Scaligcr de Cmisis. Prtpfat. " And lastly," says Bacon, " let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort: and... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should re fleet according to their true incidence,nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...but dtith more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things sliould reflect according to their true incidence ; • nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...in one of the errors, or peccant humours, which we ran briefly over in our first book. And lastly, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort ; and... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Psychology - 1851 - 430 pages
...has brought us to this ; and we must not let the truth escape us. " The mind of Man," says Bacon, "is like an enchanted glass; full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." — "Nay,* it is not credible, till it be opened, what a number of fictions and fancies the similitude... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Naturalism - 1851 - 416 pages
...brought us to this ; and we must not let the truth escape us. " The mind of Man," says Bacon, " is like an enchanted glass ; full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." — " Nay,* it is not credible, till it be opened, what a * Advancement of Learning. Idols of the Mind.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...the mind of Man is far from the Nature of a clear and equal glafs, wherein the beams of things fhould reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glafs, full of fuperftition and Impofture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpofe, let... | |
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For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; .nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered... 
