 | Edward Augustus Kendall - Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1811 - 962 pages
...intercept the latter, and oblige her to shorten sail, that the former may come near enough to examine her. ATLANTIS (New,) is the name of a fictitious philosophical...king ; the poets feigned a metamorphosis ; and as the " cloud -capt" mountain seemed to support the skies, Atlas was said to bear the heavens on his shoulders.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Philosophy - 1819 - 580 pages
...are within mens power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 894 pages
...much, at least, is finished ; and with great beauty and magnificence. The author propose rl also я frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth. But this part is net executed. ATLAS, king of Mauritania, a great astronomer, contemporary with Moses. From his taking... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
 | Thomas Martin - 1835 - 392 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought, also, in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable, to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
 | Saint Thomas More - Utopias - 1845 - 356 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history diverted him, which... | |
 | Thomas More (st.) - 1845 - 358 pages
...are within men's power to effect. His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history diverted him, which... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - Philosophers - 1846 - 730 pages
...hath proceeded as to finish that part His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but, foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the Natural History diverted him, which... | |
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His lordship thought also in this present fable to have composed a frame of laws, or of the best state or mould of a commonwealth ; but foreseeing it would be a long work, his desire of collecting the natural history diverted him, which he preferred many... 
