 | Francis Bacon - 1863 - 466 oldal
...may be likely to appear and disclose a little to the world and straight to vanish and shut again. So that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or flood, that bringeth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which... | |
 | John Wilson - 1864 - 524 oldal
...which is popular and superficial than to that which is substantial and profound. For the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning) book i. ; in Works, vol. L p. 173; Phil.edit. 1852. The multitude... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1864 - 464 oldal
...may be likely to appear and disclose a little to the world and straight to vanish and shut again. So that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or flood, that bringeth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which... | |
 | John Wilson - 1869 - 532 oldal
...which is popular and superficial than to that which is substantial and profound. For the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid. — LORD BACON : Advancement of Learning, book i. ; in Works, vol. L p. 173 ; Phil. edit. 1852. The... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1869 - 446 oldal
...and profound; for the truth is, that time seemeTh to be of the nature of a river or stream, which I carrieth down to us that which is light and blown...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid. i 4. Another error, of a diverse nature from all thi former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1870 - 858 oldal
...popular and superficial than to that which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is, that u 2 time se.emeth to be of the nature of a river or stream,...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid. Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction... | |
 | John Richard Turner Eaton - 1873 - 450 oldal
...(Keiv&v, enov Xctyava irepitretranT&ai pt\pi roO vvv. Bacon's self-contradiction that " Time sceineth to be of the nature of a river or stream which carrieth...Mill, Logie, II. 428. 2 Positive, because, though wo may see that many parts of Christianity are worthy of God, we are not hastily to conclude that where... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 438 oldal
...which is popular and superficial, than to that which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid. 4. Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1873 - 266 oldal
...virtues. 5 Fame is like a river, &°c.] Compare the Advancement, I., where he says the same of Time : ' Time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream,...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid.' 6 Concur] That is, with the common people. 7 Nomen bonum, &°c.] A good name is like sweet-smelling... | |
 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1875 - 362 oldal
...which is substantial and profound ; for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a rii-er or stream, which carrieth down to us that which is light and blown up, and sinketh and drownetk that which is weighty and solid' —Adv. of Learning, vol. II. p. 47. Compare Kov. Org. 1.... | |
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... or the wisest for the multitude's sake, were not ready to give passage rather to that which is popular and superficial than to that which is substantial and profound; for the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or stream, which... 
