 And all depends on keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination for a pattern of the world...  Works - Page 32by Francis Bacon - 1883Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wentworth Acland - Medicine - 1868 - 58 pages
...keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature, and so seeing their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of...pattern of the world. ' Rather may He graciously grant us a true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures.' — Nov. Org. pr. i.... | |
 | British Medical Association, William Stokes - Historical Card - 1869 - 326 pages
...keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature, and so seeing their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of...pattern of the world. ' Rather may He graciously grant us a true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures.' — Nov. Org. pr. i.... | |
 | Apologetics - 1886 - 508 pages
...illustrious high priest of science, who was the first of all the great thinkers of earth who caught the " true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures." How car. we better conclude this brief meditation than by recalling the prayer with which he ushered... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1888 - 926 pages
...the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature, and so receiving their images simply as they are ; for God forbid that we should give out a dream of...write an apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of tbe Creator imprinted on his creatures." 10 Concealed among the facts presented to sense are the causes... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1890 - 510 pages
...accepted only provisionally. Last of all was to come the New Philosophy or Active Science : — " the apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures," which will be revealed by the proper " Interpretation of Nature." Bacon did not do more than write... | |
 | Edwin Bormann - 1895 - 376 pages
...keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid, that we should give out a dream of...pattern of the world ; rather may he graciously grant us to write an apocalypse or true -vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures.)... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...affect." — Advt. L. iii. 1. " Contemplation is a dream, love is a trance." — Device of Philantia. " God forbid that we should give out a dream of our own imagination . for a pattern of the world." — Great Instauration — Place) . " Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies... | |
 | Robert Chambers, David Patrick - Authors, English - 1901 - 862 pages
...keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. For God forbid that we should give out a dream of...footsteps of the Creator imprinted on his creatures. Bacon's verses have a somewhat exceptional interest in view of the Bacon-Shakespeare propaganda. Two... | |
 | Ida L. White - 1901 - 232 pages
...arts, and all human knowledge, raised upon the proper foundations," the New Philosophy was to be " the apocalypse or true vision of the footsteps of the Creator imprinted on His creatures." The practical results which the author of this stupendous design of a perfected science anticipated... | |
 | Robert Chambers - English literature - 1902 - 868 pages
...keeping the eye steadily fixed upon the facts of nature and so receiving their images simply as they are. oined therewith. But for Theodulus, I never sawe him...kindness, I rest, — Yours in all mosl assuredly, Bacon's verses have a somewhat exceptional interest in view of the Bacon-Shakespeare propaganda. Two... | |
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