Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge; wherein many things are reserved, which kings with their treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command; their spials and intelligencers can give no news of them, their seamen and... Parliamentary Papers - Page 370by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons - 1853Full view - About this book
| Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things...seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow : now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity ; but if we would be led... | |
| Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things...seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow : now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity ; but if we would be led... | |
| Francis Bacon - English prose literature - 1825 - 524 pages
...those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge; wherein many things...seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow: now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity; but if we would be led by... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1825 - 538 pages
...were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man Heth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things are reserved,...seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow : now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity ; but if we would be led... | |
| William Gifford, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle), George Walter Prothero - English literature - 1831 - 570 pages
...knowledge thus brings in her train. '. No doubt,' says the former, ' the sovereignty of man lieth bid in knowledge, wherein many things are reserved which...treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command.' Mr. Herschel observes, with manifest delight, instances ' where the extremes of speculative refinement... | |
| Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
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| 1831 - 602 pages
...pleasures which knowledge thus brings in her train. 'No doubt,' says the former, ' the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge, wherein many things...treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command.' Mr. Herschel observes, with manifest delight, instances ' where the extremes of speculative refinement... | |
| American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...From Bentley's Miscellany. LORD BACON, IN ADVERSITY AND IN RETIREMENT: HIS DEATH. " The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things...treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command ; their epials and intelligences can give no news of them ; their seamen and discoverers cannot sail where... | |
| Asia - 1845 - 714 pages
...likely to teach him humility and admiration. " No doubt, the sovereignty of man," says Lord Bacon, "lieth hid in knowledge, wherein many things are reserved which kings with their treasure cannot buy, or with their force command." t Meteorology, though, perhaps, the least attractive department of physical... | |
| George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein many things...seamen and discoverers cannot sail where they grow : now we govern nature in opinions, but we are thrall unto her in necessity ; but if we would be led... | |
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