 | 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... | |
 | F. C. Blyth - Lord's prayer - 1881 - 402 pages
...13). The union of contemplation and action has been likened to " the conjunction of the two higher planets ; Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation; and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action."2 Also to the wedded union of male and female, inasmuch as by this holy bond the Church is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 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... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 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...the applying of knowledge to lucre and profession iTfor I am not ignorant how much that diverteth and interrupteth the prosecution and advancement of... | |
 | Sir Arthur Helps - Business ethics - 1890 - 158 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." See also Bk. ii. 2. 8, "But men must know that in this theatre of man's life it is reserved only for... | |
 | Samuel Lunt Caldwell - Baptists - 1890 - 446 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 the highest planets, Saturn, the planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil liberty... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 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...like unto that of the two highest planets, Saturn, tlie planet of rest and contemplation, and Jupiter, the planet of civil society and action" (p. 26... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1892 - 402 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." Adv., bk. i. 5. 11. 12. deceivable, deceptive, because, as he has just explained, a deformed person... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 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...before-mentioned of the applying of knowledge to lucre and 20 profession ; for I am not ignorant how much that diverteth and interrupteth the prosecution and... | |
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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... 
