 An active principle : howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The...  The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page 496by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825Full view - About this book
 | Arthur Cushman McGiffert - Philosophy and religion - 1915 - 346 pages
...the venerable Sage, "An active Principle: howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...invisible air. Whate'er exists hath properties that spread 1 Coleridge, Destiny of Nations. Beyond itself, communicating good, A simple blessing, or with evil... | |
 | Stopford Augustus Brooke - English poetry - 1920 - 314 pages
...acting, even thinking, it may be loving ; and at last speaking to him, communicating itself to him. In all things, in all natures, in the stars Of azure...stationary rocks, The moving waters and the invisible air — i'uis active principle abides ; from link to link It circulates, the soul of all the worlds. To... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - Faith - 1922 - 300 pages
...being is assigned, An active Principle: — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...stationary rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air. Unfolded still the more, more visible, The more we know; and yet is reverenced least, And least respected... | |
 | University of Wisconsin - Language and languages - 1922 - 300 pages
...Principle: — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in tbe stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In flower...rocks, The moving waters, and the invisible air.? This activity is not found in the external world only. It is also a characteristic of the mind : What'er... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - Philosophy of religion - 1922 - 418 pages
...exaltation that he found an " Active Prin- and poetic • i » acceptance clPle of this " Subsist view. In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure...tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks ..." and even where it is " least respected, its most apparent home, the human mind." Wordsworth affirmed... | |
 | Sir Henry Jones - Philosophy of religion - 1922 - 384 pages
...of The emotional exaltation that he found an " Active Prin> > acceptance of this " Subsist view. In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure...tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks ..." and even where it is " least respected, its most apparent home, the human mind." Wordsworth affirmed... | |
 | Solomon Francis Gingerich - English poetry - 1924 - 298 pages
...venerable Sage, 'An active Principle: — howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure heaven, the unenduring clouds, In 8ower and tree, in every pebbly stone ,, ,._ /' That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks, The moving... | |
 | Colorado College - Language and languages - 1904 - 700 pages
...ninth book of the Excursion: "To every form of Being is assigned An active Principle ... it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks . . . from link to link It circulates, the Soul of all the worlds." But there is a distinction here.... | |
 | Colorado College - Philology, Modern - 1904 - 596 pages
...ninth book of the Excursion: "To every form of Being is assigned An active Principle ... it subsists In all things, in all natures; in the stars Of azure...tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks . . . from link to link It circulates, the Soul of all the worlds." But there is a distinction here.... | |
 | Lawrence Pearsall Jacks, George Dawes Hicks, George Stephens Spinks, Lancelot Austin Garrard, H. L. Short - Philosophy - 1921 - 812 pages
...assigned . . . ' An active Principle ' ; howe'er removed From sense and observation, it subsists In all things, in all natures ; in the stars Of azure heaven, the wandering clouds, In flower and tree, in every pebbly stone That paves the brooks, the stationary rocks,... | |
| |
