For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered... The Works of Francis Bacon - Page 142by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - 1887 - 882 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...of the mind ', beholding them in an example or two ; aa first, in that instance which is the root of all superstition, namely, That to the nature of the... | |
| William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Note the words we place in italics, where we refind the three chief words of the line already quoted... | |
| Friedrich Max Müller - Comparative linguistics - 1891 - 764 pages
...galling despotism of language, and yet how little it has been shaken. Thus Bacon says : Bacon. And lastly let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort ; and... | |
| Francis Bacon - English essays - 1892 - 402 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence : nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." These inherent and universal tendencies to error Bacon calls "idols of the tribe." The times in the... | |
| David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." "We look, in short, at everything through the medium of our crude and erroneous notions of duty and... | |
| American fiction - 1924 - 550 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Much in the way of deliverance and reduction has been accomplished in the last three centuries; much... | |
| American fiction - 1924 - 570 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." Much in the way of deliverance and reduction has been accomplished in the last three centuries; much... | |
| David Nasmith - Humanities - 1892 - 316 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." "We look, in short, at everything through the medium of our crude and erroneous notions of duty and... | |
| John Locke - Knowledge, Theory of - 1894 - 588 pages
...signification, in his use of them, is limited to his ideas, and they can be signs of nothing else1. ' ' Let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by words, which are framed and applied according to the conceit and capacities of the vulgar sort : and... | |
| Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 pages
...beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be...delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider In this ' negotiation within himself ' Brutus thinks aloud ; thus affording us an exemplification of... | |
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