 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...  Poems: Now First Collected - Page 165by Chandos Leigh - 1839 - 402 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1848 - 594 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and equal glass, wherein the beams of things should re fleet according to their true incidence,nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Biography - 1850 - 590 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but dtith more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. D'Aubigny, sliould reflect according to their true incidence ; • nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass,... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Naturalism - 1851 - 416 pages
...brought us to this ; and we must not let the truth escape us. " The mind of Man," says Bacon, " is like an enchanted glass ; full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." — " Nay,* it is not credible, till it be opened, what a * Advancement of Learning. Idols of the Mind.... | |
 | Henry George Atkinson, Harriet Martineau - Psychology - 1851 - 430 pages
...has brought us to this ; and we must not let the truth escape us. " The mind of Man," says Bacon, "is like an enchanted glass; full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced." — "Nay,* it is not credible, till it be opened, what a number of fictions and fancies the similitude... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Induction (Logic) - 1851 - 376 pages
...underftanding in fome particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infeft and corrupt the ftate thereof. For the mind of Man is far from the Nature of a clear and equal glafs, wherein the beams of things fhould reflect according to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pages
...prevalent among Mankind. 127 but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Ethics - 1854 - 894 pages
...understanding in some particulars, but dolh more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof. wledge should incline a man to atheism, and that the...dependence upon God, who is the first cause : First, it For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1859 - 852 pages
...and explains much more clearly and fully. ' This paragraph is omitted altogether in the translation. far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature... | |
 | Francis Bacon (Viscount St. Albans) - Philosophy - 1857 - 856 pages
...and explains much more clearly and fully. 1 This paragraph is omitted altogether in the translation. far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, wherein...and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances that are imposed upon us by the general nature... | |
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