 | Francis Bacon - 1852 - 580 pages
...so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of a king is to find it out ;" as if, according to the innocent play of...greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that gamej. considering the great commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hidden from... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...affinneth directly, that the glory of. God "is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out," as if, according to the innocent play of...hide his works, to the end to have them found out; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1857 - 854 pages
...affirmeth directly that the glory of God it to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children...hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...affirmeth directly that the glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children...hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...affirmeth directly that the'glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children...hide his works, to the end to have them found out; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man aa hath most excellency and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 856 pages
...affirmeth directly that the glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children the divine Majesty took delight to hide bis works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...affirmeth directly that the glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children...hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1863 - 264 pages
...saith expressly, The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ;4 as if, according to the innocent play of children,...commandment of wits and means, whereby nothing needeth to be hiddenfrom them. 10. Neither did the dispensation of God vary in the •Job xxvi. 7,13. 'xxxviii. 31.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...afftrmeth directly that the glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out, as if according to the innocent play of children...hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; for in naming the king he intendeth man, taking such a condition of man as hath most excellency and... | |
 | 1867 - 488 pages
...but the glory of the king is to find it out," says Solomon. "As if," remarks Bacon on the passage, "according to the innocent play of children, the Divine...found out ; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honor than to be God's playfellows in that game." One more quotation from the book of Ecclesiastes,... | |
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The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out ;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide his works, to the end to have them found out ; and as if kings could not... 
