 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 458 pages
...it ; is the Soveraigne Good of humane Nature. The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes, was the Light of the Sense ; The last, was the Light of Reason; And his Sabbath Worke, ever since, is the Illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed Light, upon the Face, of the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1868 - 472 pages
...it ; is the Soveraigne Good of humane Nature. The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes, was the Light of the Sense ; The last, was the Light of Reason; And bis Sabbath Worke, ©f ever since, is the Illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed Light, upon... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1869 - 418 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... | |
 | Warner Taylor - American essays - 1927 - 668 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 the face of the matter or chaos, then He breathed light into the face... | |
 | Tom Peete Cross, Clement Tyson Goode - English literature - 1927 - 1432 pages
...Christ of truth, which is the enjoying of it; is the 46 cometh he shall not find faith upon the earth. v- OF ADVERSITY light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever It was a high speech of Seneca, after since... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - English literature - 1928 - 640 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 the face of the matter or chaos; then he breathed light into the face... | |
 | Literature - 1909 - 378 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 the face of the matter or chaos ; then he breathed light into the face... | |
 | William Blake - Literary Collections - 1966 - 964 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 . . . Pretence to Religion to destroy Religion. , To pass from theological and philosophical truth... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Literary Collections - 1999 - 276 pages
...belief* of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature5 of God, in the works of the days,* was the light of...the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his sabbath6 work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit.* First he breathed light upon the face... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography & Autobiography - 2000 - 470 pages
...it; is the Soveraigne Good of humane Nature. The first Creature of God, in the workes of the Dayes, was the Light of the Sense; The last, was the Light of Reason; And his Sabbath Worke, ever since, [B2V] is the | Illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed Light, 46 upon the... | |
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabbath work ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. 
