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" The ancient opinion that man was Microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which should have respect... "
Bacon: His Writings, and His Philosophy - Page 81
by George Lillie Craik - 1846
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A Descriptive and Statistical Account of the British Empire ..., Volume 2

John Ramsay McCulloch - Great Britain - 1854 - 846 pages
...anything observed in inorganic matter. This complexity and completeness of the human body almost justified the ancient opinion " that man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world." For, dust and ashes as it is, who can survey the ruins of the human frame, the bare skeleton to which...
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The Works of Francis Bacon: Philosophical works

Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...exact. To speak therefore of Medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher: The ancient opinion that man was Microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world, hatb been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchemists, as if there were to be found in...
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The Works, Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...exact. To speak therefore of Medicine, and to resume that we have said, ascending a little higher : The ancient opinion that man was Microcosmus, an abstract...extant in the great world. But thus much is evidently tme, that of all substances which nature hath produced, man's body is the most extremely compounded....
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 pages
...abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchymists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain...great world. But thus much is evidently true, that of nil substances which nature hath produced, man's body is the most extremely compounded: for we see...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England: With a ..., Volume 1

Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 594 pages
...abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically strained by Paracelsus and the alchymists, as if there were to be found in man's body certain correspondences and parallels, which should hare respect to all varieties of things, as staix plsws, minerals, which are extant in the great world....
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Of the Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity

Richard Hooker - 1868 - 200 pages
...age. See Bk. V. Ixix; Ixx. 4 ; Ixxviii. 5; Milton, Hymn, 1. 131. Even a very world in himself; — 'The ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world' (Bacon, Adv. 2. 370), and that ' the world was the image of God, and man an extract or compendious...
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The Tragedy of King Richard II

William Shakespeare - Great Britain - 1869 - 204 pages
...Compare Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 10, 5 2: ' The ancient opinion that man was microcoanus, an abstract or model of the world, hath been fantastically...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world.' See also The Lover's Complaint, 7 : The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.' In this sense Menenius...
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The Tragedy of King Richard II.

William Shakespeare - 1871 - 216 pages
...The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.' Compare Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 10, § 2 : ' The ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world.' See also The Lover's Complaint, 7 : 'Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.' In this sense...
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The Insurance Cyclopeadia: Being a Dictionary of the Definitions of Terms ...

Cornelius Walford - Insurance - 1873 - 694 pages
...anything observed in inorganic matter. This complexity and completeness of the human body almost justified the ancient opinion that " man was microcosmus, an abstract or model of the world." For, dust and ashes as it is, who can survey the to which it is at last reduced, and in clothing it...
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King Richard II.

William Shakespeare - 1876 - 190 pages
...The to-and-fro-conflicting wind and rain.' Compare Bacon, Advancement of Learning, ii. 10, § 2: ' The ancient opinion that man was microcosmus, an abstract...planets, minerals, which are extant in the great world." See also The Lover's Complaint, 7: ' Storming her world with sorrow's wind and rain.' In this sense...
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