 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
 | American fiction - 1924 - 570 pages
...they have the familiar paradox written across them, of getting the facts right and the truth wrong. "For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass," says our Lord Chancellor, "wherein the beams of things should reflect according to their true incidence;... | |
 | Theron Soliman Eugene Dixon - 1895 - 472 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 In this ' negotiation within himself ' Brutus thinks aloud ; thus... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1895 - 430 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...to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an 30 enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1895 - 600 pages
...thereof. For the mind of Man is farre from the Nature of a cleare and equall glasse, wherein the beames of things should reflect according to their true incidence; Nay, it is rather like an inchanted glasse, full of superstition and Imposture, if it bee not delivered and reduced. Adv. 0J... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 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... | |
 | 1905 - 958 pages
...in some particulars, but doth more generally and inwardly infect and corrupt the state thereof 156 . For the mind of man is far from the nature of a clear...like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and im posture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this purpose, let us consider the false appearances... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1910 - 462 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...to their true incidence ; nay, it is rather like an 30 enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not delivered and reduced. For this... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1915 - 272 pages
...infect and corrupt the state ' thereof. Jjgr.thp m fnd^qiJOTanJ5_^ r _lTJ?l-ihj' r 0 *"™* " f ° clear and equal glass, wherein the beams of things...according to their true incidence; nay, it is rather i like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture, if it be not_de]iY£ied.jajidj:educed.... | |
 | Electronic journals - 1925 - 610 pages
...and profound kind of fallacies in the mind of man, which I find not observed or inquired at all. .... 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... | |
 | Logan Pearsall Smith - Aphorisms and apothegms - 1928 - 280 pages
...man's proper good; and the only immortal thing was given to our mortality to use. Ben Jonson, 397. THE mind of man is far from the nature of a clear and equal glass, . . . nay, it is rather like an enchanted glass, full of superstition and imposture. Bacon, A, 200.... | |
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