 | Sir John Lubbock - Christian life - 1891 - 304 pages
...in The Advancement of Learning, speaks of " the world being inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things." The poets tell... | |
 | John Henry Newman - Poetry - 1891 - 56 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things." 11 10. Figure... | |
 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | James Orr - Incarnation - 1893 - 586 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found See in the nature of things."1 Finally,... | |
 | Sir John Lubbock - Conduct of life - 1894 - 358 pages
...in The Advancement of Learning, speaks of " the world being inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things." The poets tell... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra - 1895 - 436 pages
...Advancement of Learning, where Bacon extols in a similar strain the uses and worth of fiction, in which "there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things " (bk. ii. ch.... | |
 | William Basil Worsfold - Criticism - 1897 - 310 pages
...nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior \ to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the • spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Mrs. Henry Pott - Conduct of life - 1900 - 318 pages
...nature of things doth deny it ; the world being in proportion inferior to the soul, by reason whereof there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because... | |
 | Language and languages - 1916 - 608 pages
...nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore,... | |
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The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the... 
