 | Homer Baxter Sprague - English literature - 1874 - 462 pages
...the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the sovereign good of human nature. The lirst creature of God, in the works of the days, was the...since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First, he breatheth light upon the face of the matter, or chaos; then he breatheth light into the face of man;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1878 - 246 pages
...the knowledge 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 first creature 22 of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; 23 the last was the light of reason;... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1879 - 272 pages
...knowledge of truth (which is the presence of it) and the belief of truth 40 (which is the enjoying of it) is the sovereign good of human nature. The...illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon 45 the face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth... | |
 | Thomas Rawson Birks - Apologetics - 1879 - 304 pages
...the knowledge 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...illumination of His Spirit. First, he breathed light on the face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man, and still he breatheth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1879 - 356 pages
...of Truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature22 of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense;23 the last was the light of reason ; and His Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1880 - 432 pages
...although it was formerly used freely for everything created, — as when Bacon says {Essay of Truth}, " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; ana his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit; " or {Adv. of Learning, B. i.),... | |
 | Robert Tuck - Bible - 1880 - 296 pages
...Moses at the Burning Bush is considered. CHAPTER^ VII. THE BEGINNING OF THE WORLD. " The first creation of God in the works of the days was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of the reason ; and His Sabbath-work ever since is the illumination of the spirit." — Bacon, " Man may... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1880 - 702 pages
...animate and inanimate objects. Thus in the Essay « Of Truth," ante, p. 2 : — The first ereature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of i lii- sense, the last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1881 - 292 pages
...knowledge of truth (which is the presence of it) and the belief of truth -0 (which is the enjoying of it) is the sovereign good of human nature. The...illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon <s the face of the matter, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breatheth... | |
 | Christian literature - 1881 - 602 pages
...sway maintains. The attribute of Gon liimsclf confest, That sianips his imajje en llic human breast," "The first • creature of God, in the works of the...the light of the sense ; the last was the light of rcuson ; and his Sabbath work over fiinco is the illumination of his spirit. First ho breathed light... | |
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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. 
