 | William Shakespeare - 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... | |
 | William Shakespeare - 1902 - 286 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1899 - 310 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - Philosophy - 1983 - 1196 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:... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American literature - 1994 - 518 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:... | |
 | B. H. G. Wormald - History - 1993 - 436 pages
...explains, is a science which may ' be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special...philosophy or sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage'.17 The examples he gives of these profitable axioms and observations differ as between the two... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...description by negative: 'that it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms0 as fall not within the compass of any of the special...sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage.' Now that there are many of that kind need not be doubted. For example; is not the rule, 'Si inaequalibus... | |
 | Laura Dassow Walls - Biography & Autobiography - 2003 - 302 pages
...Emersonian. For instance, Bacon wondered if axioms of mathematics were not also axioms of "justice." "Is not the precept of a musician, to fall from a...concord or sweet accord, alike true in affection?" Such resemblances were not mere "similitudes . . . but the same footsteps of nature, treading or printing... | |
 | Glyn Lloyd-Hughes - 2005 - 412 pages
...the main and common way: THAT IT BE A RECEPTACLE FOR ALL SUCH PROFITABLE OBSERVATIONS AND AXIOMS AS FALL NOT WITHIN THE COMPASS OF ANY OF THE SPECIAL...SCIENCES, BUT ARE MORE COMMON AND OF A HIGHER STAGE. This science, as I understand it, I may justly report as deficient; for I see sometimes the pro founder... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1844 - 586 pages
...divide themselves." "-Tlr.il. it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special...fall from a discord or harsh accord upon a concord or •wt;et accord, alike trae in affection! Is not the trope of music, to avoid or slide from the close... | |
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That it be a receptacle for all such profitable observations and axioms as fall not within the compass of any of the special parts of philosophy or sciences, but are more common and of a higher stage. 
