 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - Philosophy - 1999 - 340 pages
...mind to raise 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...if contemplation and action may be more nearly and straightway conjoined and united together than they have been: a conjunction like unto that of the... | |
 | Medicine - 1905 - 622 pages
...mind to raise 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." The Athenian youth was taught that his duty and the object of his training and education were the advancement... | |
 | John M. Lynch - Philosophy - 2000 - 404 pages
...or a fort or commanding ground for strife and ' contention — or a, shop for profit or sale — but a rich storehouse ' for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.'* ! [David Brewster] Review of Vestiges (4th ed.) North British Review, vol. 3 (August 1845), pp. 470-515... | |
 | Bernard S. Phillips - Social Science - 2001 - 272 pages
...raise itself upon; or a fort or commanding ground for strife and contention; or a shop for profit and sale; and not a rich storehouse for the glory of the creator and the relief of man's estate, (quoted in Dewey [1920] 1948:57-58) If biological evolution has given the human being the capacity... | |
 | Marjorie Swann - Antiques & Collectibles - 2001 - 300 pages
...to secure "a tower of state, for a proud mind to raise itself upon," instead of striving to fashion "a rich storehouse, for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate."49 Before his political career took off, Bacon claimed that he sought royal preferment "because... | |
 | Calvin College - Religion - 2001 - 568 pages
...creation. But the greatest etror had been in misraking the ultimate end of knowledge: it should be a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of the human condition. On the one hand, the dignity of knowledge rests first in its archetype, for in... | |
 | Dale Spender - Educational equalization - 2001 - 384 pages
...moral capacities, and we must also grant that it was intended these should be cultivated and improved 'for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate;' that we are bound to render to Him 'both thanks and use." And here let me at once say that I desire... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 2002 - 868 pages
...mind to raise 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.0 But this is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge, if contemplation and action... | |
 | Ellen Frankel Paul, Fred Dycus Miller, Jeffrey Paul - Law - 2005 - 428 pages
...relief of man's estate." Above all else, he had to convince them that improving the human condition "is that which will indeed dignify and exalt knowledge,...straitly conjoined and united together than they have been."40 More than any other figure, Bacon was responsible for the subordination of theory to practice,... | |
 | 2004 - 212 pages
...are synonymous, since the ignorance of the cause frustrates the effect." Francis Bacon "Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate." Francis Bacon "Never mistake knowledge for wisdom. One helps you make a living; the other helps you... | |
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... a couch whereupon to rest a searching and restless spirit ; or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind to walk up and down with a fair prospect ; or a tower of state for a proud mind to raise itself upon ; or a fort or commanding ground for strife... 
