 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 602 pages
...navigation ? And those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein...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
...navigation ? And those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge; wherein...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, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 550 pages
...navigation ? And those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein...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 - 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, Sir John Murray (IV), Rowland Edmund Prothero (Baron Ernle) - English literature - 1831 - 572 pages
...the powers and pleasures which knowledge thus brings in her train. f No doubt,' says the former, ' the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge, wherein...treasure cannot buy, nor with their force command.' Mr. Herschel observes, with manifest delight, instances ' where the extremes of speculative refinement... | |
 | 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
...navigation ! And those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein...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... | |
 | American literature - 1849 - 600 pages
...place to dwell in. From Bentley's Miscellany. LORD BACON, IN ADVERSITY AND IN RETIREMENT: HIS DEATH. " The sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein...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
...navigation ! And those, I say, were but stumbled upon and lighted upon by chance. Therefore, no doubt, the sovereignty of man lieth hid in knowledge ; wherein...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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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... 
