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A Practical System of Rhetoric, Or, The Principles and Rules of Style ... - Page 288
by Samuel Phillips Newman - 1842 - 311 pages
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Memoirs of the Life of Sir James Mackintosh, Volume 1

Sir James Mackintosh - British - 1836 - 526 pages
...speculators have despised experience ; but he who was both a philosopher and a statesman, has told us, ' This is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge,...and action may be more nearly conjoined and united than they have hitherto been.' These are the words of Lord Bacon * ; and in his spirit I shall, throughout...
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Conversations at Cambridge

Charles Valentine De Grice - Authors, English - 1836 - 322 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife or contention ; or a shop for profit or sale, — and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate*." In the same pure and noble strain, Milton spoke, not of the mercenary crew of false pretenders to learning,...
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The Legal Observer, Or, Journal of Jurisprudence, Volume 11

Law - 1836 - 596 pages
...of aspiring, ' and that they ought to enter their profession, not as a shop for profit and sale, but a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate ? " The second reason against the separation is, that thereby the Crown would be deprived of its prerogative...
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Essays and Selections

Basil Montagu - Fore-edged painting - 1837 - 382 pages
...raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention ; or a shop for profit or sale ; and not a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." Of the strength of the love of knowledge who Love. can doubt? Who can have passed an hour with 233...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 894 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or ression of the people, he mentioneth four points....The multitude of taxations. Unto ( oncernme _ . . and straitly conjoined and united together than they have been; a conjunction like unto that of the...
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The Works of Lord Bacon: With an Introductory Essay, Volume 1

Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...itself upon ; or a fort, or commanding ground, for strife and contention ; or a shop, for profit, or sale ; and not a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man's estate." He then weighs the dignity of knowledge " in the balance with other things," and takes the value by...
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The Varieties of Human Greatness: A Discourse on the Life and Character of ...

Alexander Young - Mathematicians - 1838 - 128 pages
...father of inductive philosophy, as well as of this his illustrious pupil. " That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been,- 1 —a conjunction like unto that...
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A Discourse on the Life and Character of the Reverend John Thornton Kirkland ...

Alexander Young - 1838 - 728 pages
...father of inductive philosophy, as well as of this his illustrious pupil. "That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of...
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The Varieties of Human Greatness: A Discourse on the Life and Character of ...

Alexander Young - Mathematicians - 1838 - 134 pages
...father of inductive philosophy, as well as of this his illustrious pupil. "That," says Lord Bacon, " will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action may be more nearly and strongly conjoined and united together than they have been, — a conjunction like unto that of...
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The Quarterly Review, Volume 61

English literature - 1838 - 728 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention, or a shop for profit and sale ; but rather a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator, and the relief of man.' She agrees with him that physical science, however useful, is but a part, and a small part, of...
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