 | Charles F. Steel - 1888 - 312 pages
...example, compare an aphorism with Shakespeare's apostrophe to man : — Bacon's Aphorism No. i. — " Man as the minister and interpreter of nature does and understands as much as his observation on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind permit him, and neither... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - Idealism - 1888 - 542 pages
...according to their true incidence," was "rather an enchanted glass full of superstition and imposture." But "man as the minister and interpreter of Nature does, and understands, as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature ; and neither knows, nor is able to do... | |
 | Alexander Pope - 1889 - 590 pages
...the ' Novum Organum ' : " Man, as the minister 1 Hamlet, act iii. sc. 2. VOL. V. B and interpreter, does and understands as much as his observations on...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." The 'just standard' of nature in poetry which Pope commends to the critic is that direct, imitative... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 574 pages
...Organum ' : " Man, as the minister 1 Humlot, act iii. sc. 2. 50 LIFE OF POPB. [CHAP. in. and interpreter, does and understands as much as his observations on...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." The ' just standard ' of nature in poetry which Pope commends to the critic is that direct, imitative... | |
 | Alexander Pope - Poets, English - 1889 - 576 pages
...uses it in the first aphorism of the ' Novum Organum ' : " Man, as the minister and interpreter, docs and understands as much as his observations on the...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more." The 'just standard' of nature in poetry which Pope commends to the critic is that direct, imitative... | |
 | John Scott - Democracy - 1890 - 370 pages
...Of Fauquier). AUTHOR OF " THE LOST PRINCIPLE OF THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT " AND OF "PARTISAN LIFE." " Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observation on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither... | |
 | William Greenough Thayer Shedd - Church group work - 1891 - 468 pages
...opening of one of the most sagacious and suggestive of modern treatises in philosophy reads as follows: "Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...observations on the order of nature, either with regard to matter or to mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more."1 In this dictum of Lord Bacon,... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - English literature - 1894 - 688 pages
...which, including the first, are here given as indicating the character of the whole work : — " I. Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does...permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. " IX. The sole cause and root of almost every defect in the sciences is this ; that whilst we falsely... | |
 | Noah Knowles Davis - Logic - 1895 - 236 pages
...are indicated in aphorisms 1-10. These the closing passage of Dist. Op. anticipates, saying: "Man, the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as he has observed of the order, operation, and mind of nature, and neither knows nor is able to do more.... | |
 | Bible - 1892 - 604 pages
...His light and heat, Makes His sun on us to shine: All our blessings are divine ! " —0. Wesley. (j3) Man, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much aa his observations on the order of nature, either witli regard to things or the mind, permit him,... | |
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MAN, as the minister and interpreter of nature, does and understands as much as his observations on the order of nature, either with regard to things or the mind, permit him, and neither knows nor is capable of more. 
