 ... if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is he spoiled by vain philosophy...  The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 9by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Quiller-Couch - English prose literature - 1925 - 1262 pages
...Device gi Of First and Second Causes IF any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby...for the contemplation of God's creatures and works producjbth (having regard to the works and creatures themselves) knowledge, but having regard to God,... | |
 | Harold Toliver - Literary Criticism - 1989 - 296 pages
...Bacon makes the distinction clear: For if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge. . . . And hence . . . divers great learned men have been heretical, whilst they have sought to fly up to the... | |
 | Joseph Marie comte de Maistre - Biography & Autobiography - 1998 - 408 pages
...Advancement of Learning reads as follows: "if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge." S podding. 3:267.] By the term broken knowledge, he understands quite simply a science attached to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...and not to be lightly passed over. For if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light whereby he...For the contemplation of God's creatures and works having regard to the works and creatures themselves, produces knowledge, but having regard to God,... | |
 | Carl von Linné - Foreign Language Study - 2001 - 516 pages
...Learning by reminding his readers that: If any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things to attain that light, whereby...knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge. Is there any point in calling Linnaeus in question when he crowns his own magnificent contributions... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...not to be lightly passed over: for if any man shall think by view and inquiry into these sensible0 and material things to attain that light whereby he...no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge.0 And therefore it was most aptly said by one of Plato's school,0 that 'the sense of man... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 636 pages
...not to be lightly passed over ; for if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby...but wonder, which is broken knowledge. And therefore (note how wonderfully this image is translated, and how beautifully applied,) it was most aptly said... | |
 | William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1838 - 580 pages
...ignorance and evil. ' Tf any man ' (he says) ' shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light whereby...; but having regard to God, no perfect knowledge, hut wonder, •which is broken knowledge. And, therefore, it was most aptly said by one of Plato's... | |
 | Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood, William Harrison Ainsworth, William Ainsworth - 1831 - 632 pages
...not to be lightly passed over ; for if any man shall think, by view and inquiry into these sensible and material things, to attain that light, whereby...the works and creatures themselves) knowledge ; but (luiving regard to God) no perfect knowledge, but wonder, which is broken knowledge. And therefore... | |
 | Various - 1867 - 732 pages
...passed over ; for if any man shall think, by view and enquiry into these sensible and material tiings, to attain that light whereby he may reveal unto himself the nature or will of God, then indeed is ho spoiled by vain philosophy; for the contemplation of God's creatures and works produceth (having... | |
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