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" 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. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and... "
The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 78
by Francis Bacon - 1815
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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Volume 1

William Wordsworth - Superexlibris - 1871 - 630 pages
...never attain. So Man, when he resteth and assurcth himself upon Divine protection and favour, galhereth a force and faith which human Nature in itself could not obtain." LORD BACON. CANTO FIRST. FROM Bolton's old monastic tower The bells ring loud with gladsome power ;...
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The History of English Literature: With an Outline of the Origin and Growth ...

William Spalding - English literature - 1872 - 482 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in...Atheism is in all respects hateful, so in this, that it dcpriveth human nature of the means to exalt itself above human frailty. In some respects not unlike...
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The poetical works of Wordsworth. Repr. of the 1827 ed., with ..., Issue 476

William [poetical works] Wordsworth - 1872 - 584 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he rcsteth and assureth himself upon Divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain." — LORD BACON. FROM Bolton's old monastic tower(2) The bells ring loud with gladsome power ; The sun...
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The Essays of Lord Bacon: With Critical and Illustrative Notes ...

Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as5 atheism is in all respects hateful, so6 in this, that it depriveth human nature of the means to...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 113

1873 - 786 pages
...contemporary Bacon, that "man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not attain" ! How might the principal personage of his "act of self-devotion," religious and constant as...
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Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 113

England - 1873 - 780 pages
...contemporary Bacon, that "man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not attain" ! How might the principal personage of his "act of self-devotion," religious and constant as...
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Bacon's Essays

Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1874 - 700 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in...frailty. As it is in particular persons, so it is in nations:—never was there such a state for magnanimity as Rome. Of this state hear what Cicero saith:...
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The Philosophy of Natural Theology: An Essay in Confutation of the ...

William Jackson - Natural theology - 1874 - 432 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in...of the means to exalt itself above human frailty." Bacon. Essay on Atheism, p. 56. " What joy to watch in lower creature Such dawning of a moral nature,...
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The philosophy of natural theology, an essay which obtained a prize at ...

William Jackson - 1874 - 436 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in...of the means to exalt itself above human frailty." Bacon. Essay on Atheism, p. 56. " What joy to watch in lower creature Such dawning of a moral nature,...
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The Southern Review, Volume 15

Albert Taylor Bledsoe, Sophia M'Ilvaine Bledsoe Herrick, C. J. Griffith - 1874 - 528 pages
...could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in...of the means to exalt itself above human frailty.' His philosophy of atoms was admirable, for the age in which it appeared ; but, for all ages, his philosophy...
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