 | William Mellen Chamberlain - 1881 - 387 pages
...paused, with dew-gemmed face uplifted, and Robert added to her text fit commentary from Bacon : — " The first creature of God, in the works of the Days, was the light of Sense; the last was the light of Reason, and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his... | |
 | John Charles Wright - 1882
...shadow played. 'Tis morning ; and the sun, with ruddy orb Ascending, fires the horizon. Ex. 26. — The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. The people assembled ; Mahomet called the hill to come to him again and again ; and when the hill stood... | |
 | Gustav Gottheil - Religion - 1896 - 466 pages
...filled with the sacred joy of the Sabbath, cometh a higher soul from above. — Jewish Kabbalists. The first creature of God in the works of the days was the light of sense, the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work since is the illumination of the spirit.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - 290 pages
...truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief '.£. f . ©f Truth of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. 'The...First he breathed light upon the face of the matter • l * ' or chaos; then he breathed light into the face of ;_.,..«•. . man ; and still he breatheth... | |
 | Robert McWilliam - 1900 - 608 pages
...essays are very fine, and one of the finest is that on ' Truth,' from which the following is extracted : the sense; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath worke ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter... | |
 | Jonathan Ritchie Smith - 1903 - 406 pages
...clearly disclosed until the incarnation nor His power fully manifested until the ascension of the Son. " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work, ever since, is the illumination of His Spirit " (Bacon, Essay on Truth). The coming of Christ in the Spirit is treated in the chapter on The End... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1905 - 318 pages
...is the presence of it; and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sover25eign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in...Spirit. . First he breathed light upon the face of the face of man; and still he breatheth and inspireth light into the face of his chosen. The poet0 that... | |
 | Walter Cochrane Bronson - 1905 - 404 pages
...knowl- 10 edge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The...and His sabbath work ever since is the illumination 15 of His Spirit. First He breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then He breathed light... | |
 | Richard Maurice Bucke - Body, Mind & Spirit - 1905 - 318 pages
...plays and sonnets. Note again these words of Bacon's, taken from his essay " Of Truth " [35 : 82] : " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work ever since is the illumination of his spirit." In other words : In the evolution of the human mind simple consciousness was first produced ; then... | |
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. 
