 | William Francis C. Wigston - Rosicrucians - 1891 - 502 pages
...wax. We find Jacob Boehmen working out this idea under the title " Signatura rerum.'' Bacon writes : " Certain it is that Veritas and Bonitas differ, but as the seal and the print." In the Third Book of the "De Augmentis " : " Neither are all these whereof we have spoken and others... | |
 | Baccalaureate addresses - 1892 - 622 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill-mower that mows on still and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...of his mind with the use and employment thereof." Our words, then, to you, gentlemen, are "Onward and Upward;" and permit me to remind you that immediately... | |
 | Henry Coppée - Literature - 1893 - 560 pages
...and color them, but not much to amend them, like an illmower that mows on still and never whet3 his scythe. Whereas, with the learned man it fares otherwise,...amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. FRANCIS BACON. LIFE. LIFE, I know not what thou art, But know that thou and I must part ; And when... | |
 | Henry Morley - English literature - 1895 - 496 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them, like to an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...of his mind with the use and employment thereof." In power and commandment, knowledge is higher than all princes ; for its command is over the reason,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1898 - 170 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them : like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...of his mind with the use and employment "thereof. _ Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Veritas \Truth\axA Bonitas [Goodness] differ... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 854 pages
...of himself, than his tendency to figure. Such a sentence as this in the Advancement, "Nay, further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Veritas and Bonitas differ but as Hfigures0f tne seal an^ tne P"nt ! f°r t™1'1 points goodness ; and they be but the clouds of error... | |
 | George Saintsbury - English literature - 1898 - 868 pages
...of himself, than his tendency to figure. Such a sentence as this in the Advancement, " Nay, further, in general and in sum, certain it is that Veritas and Bonitas differ but as Hfigurcs°f tne seal and tne print ; for truth points goodness ; and they be but the clouds of error... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Didactic literature, English - 1900 - 462 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still and never whets his scythe : whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay further, in general and in sum, certain it is that veritas and bonitas differ but as the seal and the... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 348 pages
...colour them, but not much to amend them: like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never whets his scythe. Whereas with the learned man it fares otherwise,...his mind with the use and employment thereof. | Nay, further, in gen- (LVH) eral and in sum, certain it is that Verilas and Bonitas differ but as the seal... | |
 | Edward FitzGerald - 1902 - 352 pages
...correction and amendment of his mind with the use and employment thereof. Nay, further, in gen- (Lvn) eral and in sum, certain it is that Veritas and Bonitas differ but as the seal and print; for Truth prints Goodness ; and they be the clouds of error, which descend in the storms of... | |
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The good parts he hath he will learn to show to the full, and use them dexterously, but not much to increase them. The faults he hath he will learn how to hide and colour them, but not much to amend them ; like an ill mower, that mows on still, and never... 
