 | 1867 - 624 pages
...religion. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility, for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his...It destroys, likewise, magnanimity, and the raising human nature ; for, take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...because the people are not such as the priests are.' nobility, for certainly Man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his...It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising human nature ; for take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put on... | |
 | James Hain Friswell - 1869 - 498 pages
...vulgar, but it is profane to apply the opinions of the vulgar to the divinities. LORD CLARENDON. 101 It destroys likewise magnanimity and the raising of...God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain.... | |
 | Thomas Budd Shaw, William Smith - English literature - 1869 - 420 pages
...destroy man's nobility : for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body : and, if he be not akin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature....take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity utul courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a Man, who to him is instead of a God... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1869 - 752 pages
...It destroys likewise Magnanimity, and the raising of humane Nature: for take an example of a Dogg, and mark what a generosity and courage he will put...maintained by a Man, who to him is instead of a God, or Jltlior >'itura- Which courage ia manifestly such, u that Creature without that confidence of a better... | |
 | Henry Clark Powell - Incarnation - 1896 - 524 pages
...Lord Bacon, in the context of the passage just quoted, notices " what a generosity and courage a dog will put on when he finds himself maintained by a...God, or Melior Natura. Which courage is manifestly such, as that creature without that confidence of a better nature than his own could never attain."... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 540 pages
...were no God. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his...by a man who to him is instead of a God, or melior iiatura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - Literature - 1898 - 542 pages
...were no God. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his...maintained by a man who to him is instead of a God, or niclior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - Literature - 1898 - 560 pages
...religion. They that deny a God destroy a man's nobility; for certainly man is of kin to the beasts by his body ; and if he be not of kin to God by his...maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, " a superior nature "; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - Physicians - 1898 - 544 pages
...very volume of Bacon which contains the passage I commend to your reflection. Here it is. Listen : ' Take an example of a dog, and mark what a generosity...a man who, to him, is instead of a God, or melior naturti, which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature... | |
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They that deny a God destroy man's nobility ; for certainly man is of kin to the beast by his body ; and, if he be not of kin to God by his spirit, he is a base and ignoble creature. It destroys likewise magnanimity, and the raising of human nature ;... 
