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Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - Page 122
by Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 pages
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Text-book of Prose from Burke, Webster, and Bacon: With Notes, and Sketches ...

Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - 104 pages
...use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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Rab and his friends, and other papers. 12th ed

John Brown - 1882 - 506 pages
...Poesy, Painting, Music, &<:.) 'hath been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE OF THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason -whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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Spare hours v. 1, 1861, Volume 1

John Brown - 1861 - 482 pages
...been to give SOME SHADOW OF SATISFACTION TO THE MIND OF MAN IN THESE POINTS WHEREIN THE NATURE O» THINGS DOTH DENY IT, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof, there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, A MORE AMPLE GREATNESS, A MORE EXACT...
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The Advancement of Learning

Francis Bacon - Logic - 1885 - 438 pages
...of this feigned ftfstory hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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The Defense of Poesy, Otherwise Known as An Apology for Poetry

Philip Sidney - Poetry - 1890 - 210 pages
...use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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Poetry, with Reference to Aristotle's Poetics

John Henry Newman - Poetry - 1891 - 56 pages
...use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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Francis Bacon, Poet, Prophet, Philosopher, Versus Phantom Captain ...

William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...History (as he calls poetry) hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man, in those points, wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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Martin Luther: German Student Life ; Poetry ; from the Manuscripts of the Late

William Bruce Robertson - Poetry - 1892 - 266 pages
...and the use of this feigned history is to give the mind of man some shadow of satisfaction in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being inferior to the soul, and because there is agreeable to the mind a more and more ample greatness, a...
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The Christian View of God and the World as Centring in the Incarnation ...

James Orr - Incarnation - 1893 - 584 pages
...Lord Bacon, speaking of poetry, "is to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man on those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul ; by reason whereof there is, agreeable to the spirit of man, a more ample greatness, a more exact...
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