 | Leonard R. N. Ashley - 1988 - 330 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. Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory reduction... | |
 | John Hollander - 1990 - 280 oldal
...can be time itself or eloquence itself. For Francis Bacon "the truth is that time seemeth to be in the nature of a river or stream, which carrieth down...and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid."6 But Milton's conceit moralizes differently: "Truth is compared in scripture to a streaming... | |
 | Friedrich Heinrich Jacobi - 1994 - 1398 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...and sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid."1» ascible Ludwig, who comes to mind simply because of a local connection, called Jerome Gundling... | |
 | Michael Hattaway - 2002 - 800 oldal
...wisest will choose superficiality over profundity for the sake of the multitude: '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' (Bacon (1996), p. 145). However, the path of progress via such an engagement will be a difficult one... | |
 | Stephen Gaukroger - 2001 - 270 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...and blown up, and sinketh and drowneth that which is weight)- and solid. (iii.291-2) Among the other defects that Bacon notes (iu.292-5) are the concentration... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 oldal
...which is popular0 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. Another error, of a diverse nature from all the former, is the over-early and peremptory0 reduction0... | |
 | John Milton - 2003 - 1084 oldal
...echoing Psalm Ixxxv, it, but he is probably also recalling that Bacon had said that "the truth is, that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid" {Advancement I, v, 3; p. 39). i"7 So in TA' Milton defines heresy as "a religion taken up and believed... | |
 | Alfred Adler, Alexandra Adler - 1916 - 922 oldal
...which is populär and superficial than to tbat which is substantial and profound; for the t null is that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid." We have only too readily discouraged in our youth the honesty that would face this fact and search... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1920 - 96 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... | |
 | William Ridgeway - 1910 - 248 oldal
...less valuable creations of the ancient world have come down to us : " For the truth is," says he, " that time seemeth to be of the nature of a river or...sinketh and drowneth that which is weighty and solid." But this argument has been refuted by the discoveries of the works of authors hitherto unknown or lost... | |
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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... 
