| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 586 pages
...of the populace, must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. TEUTH. LOED BACON. THE first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos, then he breathed light into the face... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...sake an nil things, and bo Is the cause of all the beautiful.— Plato's Epist. II. to Diongsius. " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit." — Bacon's Essag of Tnalt. .§ 1. THE TRUE RELIGION. BENJAMIN CONSTANT, setting out upon an investigation... | |
| George Lillie Craik - 1867 - 414 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,...work ever since is the illumination of his spirit ; " or {Adv. of Learning, B. i.), " The wit and mind of man. if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation... | |
| Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pages
...all things, and he is the cause of all the beautiful. — Plato's /-;l//>..'.. If. to Dionysius, u The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...last was the light of reason : and his Sabbath work erer since is the illumination of hli Spirit." — Bacon's Essay of 7Vu(4. § 1. THE TRUE RELIGION.... | |
| Henry Coppée - Readers and speakers - 1867 - 588 pages
...remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. From " Political Tradi." TRUTH. LORD BAfON. THE first creature of God, in the works of the days,...light of the sense, the last was the light of reason, nnd his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1867 - 440 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 of God, in the [12] works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath... | |
| Theology - 1868 - 802 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...work ever since is the illumination of his spirit. First, he breathed light upon matter, or chaos, then he breathed light into the face of man; and still... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 786 pages
...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...work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face of the matter, or chaos, then he breathed light into the face... | |
| Francis Bacon - Conduct of life - 1868 - 694 pages
...created," applied both to animate and inanimate objects. Thus in the Essay " Of Truth," ante, p. 2 : — The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. For the wit and mind of man, if it work upon matter, which is the contemplation of the creatures of... | |
| Joseph Payne - 1868 - 530 pages
...the enjoying of it ; is the '' soueraigne " good of human nature.' The first creature (creation)12 of God, in the works of the days, was the light of...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath-work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.3 First he breathed light upon the face... | |
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