 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...love-making, or wooing of it ; the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it ; and the belief r which doth succeed that which we last mentioned, is, that after the distribution of pa nnd his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...GooV in the 'works of the days, was Ihe light of the sense4: the last was the light of rêàsoïTT y at all between them. For the cause rendered, that...about the eyelids are for the safeguard of the sigh mailer, or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face of man ; and s he brealhelh and inspirelh lighl... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 544 pages
...love-making or wooing of it — 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." We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have flocked to our columns —... | |
 | Questions and answers - 1850 - 524 pages
...love-c.aking or wooing of it — 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." We believe that it is under the impulse of such feelings that they have flocked to our columns —... | |
 | 1850 - 1042 pages
...the love-making or wooing of it ; 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 ;" and that this highest gratification of humanity can only be attained by carefully training and exercising... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1851 - 228 pages
...the love-making or wooing of it ; 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. 2. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...the love-making, or wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign...days, was the light of the sense : the last was the liaht of reason ; and his Sabbath work ever since, is°the illumination of his Spirit. First, he breathed... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1852 - 394 pages
...Love-making, or Wooing of it ; the Knowledge of Truth, which is the Prefence of it ; and the Belief of Truth, which is the enjoying of it ; is the Sovereign Good of human Nature. The firft Creature of God, in the Works of the Days, was the Light of the Senfe ; the laft was the Light... | |
 | Religion - 1853 - 604 pages
...the energies of truth in the hands of the great sanctifier. "The first creature of God, in the work of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last...work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit" If the study of divine things is not a blessing to any, it is because they are "sensual, having not... | |
 | John Greenleaf Whittier - Literary Criticism - 1854 - 452 pages
...which is the lovemaking of it, 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. MAGICIANS AND WITCH FOLK. "FASCINATION," saith Henry Cornelius Agrippa, in the fiftieth chapter of... | |
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... the inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or wooing of it; 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. 
