...life, God and angels only should be lookers-on ; that contemplation and action ought ever to be united, use that hath hindered the progression of learning, because these fundamental knowledges Jupiter, the planet of action." He could not, thus thinking, but engage in active life; and, so engaged,...

...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...

...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and adtion may be more nearly and ftraitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a Conjunction like unto that of the two higheft Planets, Saturn, the Planet of reft and contemplation, and Jupiter, the Planet of civil fociety...

...highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil so ciety and action; howbeit, I do not mean, when I speak of use and action, that end before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession; for 1 am not ignorant how much...

...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strailly the going forth; and the main garden in the midst...main garden. The green hath two pleasures ; the one, before mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession ; for I am not ignorant how much...

...dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined together than they have been — a conjunction like...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action." This favourite doctrine and simile of Bacon, so fitting and urgent in an age whose retrospect was the...

...will indeed dignify ami exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightly conjoined and united together than they have been...Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupitor, the planet of civi society and action : howbeit I do not mean, when I speak of use and action,...

...contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined together than they have been—a conjunction like unto that of the two highest planets,...and Jupiter the planet of civil society and action." This favourite doctrine and simile of Bacon, so fitting and urgent in an age whose retrospect was the...

...will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been...for I am not ignorant how much that diverteth and interrupted! the prosecution and advancement of knowledge ; like unto the golden ball thrown before...

...is the more intimate and strict conjunction of contemplation and action ; a conjunction like that of Saturn, 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...