 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...mass of learning, in the multitude of learned men, then to rectify or raise the sciences themselves. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...mass of learning, in the multitude of learned men, than to rectify or raise the sciences themselves. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...mass of learning in the multitude of learned men, than to rectify or raise the sciences themselves. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...mass of learning in the multitude of learned men, than to rectify or raise the sciences themselves. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...of man's dominion, so far as Almighty God of his goodness shall permit ?"(6) " As water," he says, " whether it be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...mass of learning, in the multitude of learned men, than to rectify or raise the sciences themselves. The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
 | Stephen Laidler, James William Massie - Converts - 1827 - 440 pages
...MYSORE MISSION COLLEGE, INTENDED TO BE IN CONNEXION WITH Uottiron Jtti00ionat£ BANGALORE.-18M. i " The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...be the dew of heaven or the springs of the earth, doth scatter, and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle; so this excellent... | |
 | 1850 - 772 pages
...Bacon, which were begun in the January number. VECESSITY or PUBLIC LIBRARIES, AND SEATS OF LEARNING. 1 The works or acts of merit towards learning are conversant...places of learning, the books of learning, and the perons of the learned. For as water, whether it )e the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...places of learning. 2. The books of learning. 3. The persons of the learned. I. THE PLACES OF LEARNING. As water, whether it be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the tarth, 'loth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into tome receptacle, where... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...of man's dominion, so far as Almighty God of his goodness shall permit ?"(&) " As water," he says, " whether it be the dew of heaven, or the springs of the earth, doth scatter and lose itself in the ground, except it be collected into some receptacle, where it may... | |
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