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The Works of Francis Bacon, Lord Chancellor of England - Page xxv
by Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825
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Select Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1888 - 402 pages
...universality or prima philosophia, the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common, and of a higher stage. He held this element essential : it is never out of mind...
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Emerson's Complete Works: English traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1888 - 308 pages
...universality, or prima philosophia ; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage. He held this element essential : it is never out of mind...
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Proceedings of the Literary & Philosophical Society of Liverpool, Volumes 43-44

Literary and Philosophical Society of Liverpool - 1889 - 852 pages
...should be prized '.' * How true this is to nature and life was long ago noticed. Lord Bacon asks, " Is not the precept of a musician, to fall from a discord...a concord or sweet accord, alike true in affection ? " t and again, in another work — The division and quavering, which please so much in music, have...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 55

Religion - 1891 - 624 pages
...may seem at first view to be an identity of law between these two departments. " Is not," he asks, " the precept of a musician to fall from a discord,...accord, alike true in affection ? * * * Is not the delight of the quavering upon a stop in music the same with the playing of light upon water'?" ' Splendet...
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Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain ...

William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...correspondence of the principles and architectures of nature to the rule and policy of gviernment? Is not the precept of a musician, to fall from a discord...a concord or sweet accord, alike true in affection 1 " (page 107, Book II., "Advancement of Learning," Wright). This Persian magic Bacon calls " Philosophia...
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The Musicians's Year Book

Music - 1895 - 206 pages
...sympathize with me in what I am doing — I no longer feel any pleasure. Mozart. September Twenty-second. Is not the precept of a musician to fall from a discord or harsh accord alike true in affection ? Is not the delight of quavering upon a stop in music the same with the playing...
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The Advancement of Learning, Volume 2

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 pages
...correspondence of the principles and architectures of nature to the rules and policy of government? Is not the precept of a musician, to fall from a discord or harsli accord upon a concord or sweet accord, alike true in affection ? Is not the trope of music,...
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The Tragedy of Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - Historical drama, English - 1902 - 284 pages
...arranged in accordance with the principle of contrast that underlies all art. " Is not," asks Bacon, " the precept of a musician to fall from a discord or...a concord or sweet accord alike true in affection ? " The harsh discord in the scene we are considering, when Each spake words of high disdain And insult...
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Julius Caesar

William Shakespeare - 1902 - 290 pages
...arranged iri accordance with the principle of contrast that underlies all art. " Is not," asks Bacon, " the precept of a musician to fall from a discord or...a concord or sweet accord alike true in affection ? " The harsh discord in the scene we are considering, when Each spake words of high disdain And insult...
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The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: English traits

Ralph Waldo Emerson - American essays - 1903 - 436 pages
...universality, or primaphilosophia; the receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy, but are more common and of a higher stage.1 He held this element essential : it is never out of mind...
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