 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1884 - 474 pages
...if it light well, it maketh virtues shine, and vices blush. XLIV. — OF DEFORMITY. DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being for the most part (as the Scripture 1 " The autumn of the beautiful is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1884 - 476 pages
...if it light well, it maketh virtues shine, and vices blush. XLIV. — OF DEFORMITY. DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being for the most part (as the Scripture 1 " The autumn of the beautiful is... | |
 | Thomas Firminger Thiselton Dyer - 1884 - 580 pages
...adaptation of the mind to the deformity of the body concurs, too, with Bacon's theory: "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being void of natural affection, and so they have their revenge on nature. "... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine, and vices blush. XLIV. OF DEFORMITY. DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature, for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature ; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affections... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1887 - 326 pages
...again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine and vices blush. XLIV. OF DEFORMITY. DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature, for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being, for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection,... | |
 | Alexander Bain - English language - 1887 - 298 pages
...begins : — "Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set". The other commences: — "Deformed persons are commonly even with nature. For as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature ". Now the curious thing is that the Essay preceding is "Youth and Age," also... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1888 - 336 pages
...again, if it light well, it maketh virtue shine and vices blush. XLIV. ; OF DEFORMITY. DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature, for, as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being, for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection,... | |
 | Appleton Morgan, Charlotte Endymion Porter - 1889 - 654 pages
...fiction or in history could afford a better illustration of Bacon's dictum that " deformed persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature ; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection ;... | |
 | 1889 - 660 pages
...in fiction or in history could afford a better illustration of Bacon's dictum that "deformed persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature ; being for the most part (as the Scripture saith) void of natural affection ;... | |
 | Edward John Trelawny - Adventure and adventurers - 1890 - 560 pages
...and they were deep and wise, as the others are shallow and foolish. Bacon says, " Deformed persons are commonly even with nature; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature, being for the most part (as the scripture saith,) void of natural affection ;... | |
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DEFORMED persons are commonly even with nature ; for as nature hath done ill by them, so do they by nature; being for the most part, as the Scripture saith, void of natural affection: and so they have their revenge of nature. 
