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Works: Collected and Edited by James Spedding, Robert Leslie Ellis, and ... - Page 343
by Francis Bacon - 1859
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The Cornhill Magazine

William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1903 - 872 pages
...alternative variations. So as it nppeareth that poesy serveth and conformeth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineneas, because it doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shows of things to the desires...
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The Philosophical Works of Francis Bacon, with Prefaces and Notes ..., Volume 3

Francis Bacon - 1861 - 862 pages
...more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth . that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, • and to delectation....much new matter introduced : among the rest, a whole paragraph concerning the true use and dignity of dramatic poetry, as a vehicle of moral instruction...
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Horæ Subsecivæ, Volume 2

John Brown - English literature - 1861 - 516 pages
...found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that Poesy" (and the others] " serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...BY SUBMITTING THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND; whereas reason" (science, philosophy] "doth buckle and bow the mind to the nature of things."...
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Spare Hours

John Brown - 1861 - 470 pages
...therefore it was even thought to have some participation ofdivineness because IT DOTH RAISE AND DIRECT THE MIND, BY SUBMITTING THE SHEWS OF THINGS TO THE DESIRES OF THE MIND ; irlicri-mi reason (science, philosophy) doth " buckle tmtt bow the mind to the nature of...
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Horae Subsecivae: Rab and His Friends : and Other Papers

John Brown - Dogs - 1862 - 360 pages
...found in the nature of things. So it appeareth that t'ocfi" (and the others) " tervelh and conferreth to magnanimity , morality , and to delectation. And therefore it was ever thought lohave some participation ofdivinencss because IT DOTH RAISE AND ERECT THE IIIND, BY SUBMITTING! THE...
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Encyclopaedia cambrensis: Y gwyddoniadur cymreig

John Parry - Encyclopedias and dictionaries, Welsh - 1863 - 796 pages
...rareness, so that it appcareth that potfy лсгте/Л and cunfcrrctli to nmcriwïîiimiif/, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to have some participation of divineness, btcausc it doth raise and ertft the mind by submitting tltf show» of things to the desires of the...
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Philosophical works

Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 pages
...and more unexpected and alternative variations. So as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and to delectation. And...by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; -whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things. And we see that...
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Nature and art [ed. by F.B. Ward].

Francis Beckford Ward - 1866 - 600 pages
...a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things ; " and we must look...
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Nature and Art, Volume 1

1866 - 346 pages
...a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety, than can be found in the nature of things. Art doth raise and erect the mind by submitting the shews of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature of things ;" and we must look...
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The Authorship of Shakespeare

Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 670 pages
...alternative variations : so as it appeareth that poesy serveth and conferreth to magnanimity, morality, and delectation. And therefore it was ever thought to...it doth raise and erect the mind, by submitting the shows of things to the desires of the mind ; whereas reason doth buckle and bow the mind unto the nature...
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