 | Francis Bacon - 1720 - عدد الصفحات: 576
...elfe are Words but the Images of Things, fo that unlefs they be animated with the Spirit of Reafon, to fall in love with them, is all one as to fall in love with a Pifture, BUT yet notwithftanding it is a Thing not haftijy to be condemn'd, for a Man to iiluftrate... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, secundum majus et minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says:... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 970
...men's works like the first letter of a patent or limned book; which, though it hath large flouviskes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments tp the progress of learning, he says:... | |
 | George Burnett - 1807 - عدد الصفحات: 528
...It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity; /or •tvords are but the images of matter, and except they have...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Among various other errors which he points' out as impediments to the progress of learn-- in g, he... | |
 | John Locke - 1808 - عدد الصفحات: 346
...servile* " Words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to faH in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." Bacon's Projicience and Advancement of Learning p. SO. 8vo. ".The truth of being'and the truth of knowing... | |
 | 1852 - عدد الصفحات: 862
...otherwise would be excellent. The writer might advantageously study the lesson taught by Bacon, — " Words are but the images of matter ; and except they...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." We regret to be constrained thus to animadvert on a young beginner. One feature in our author commands... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 524
...represented an example of late times, yet it hath been, and will be, secundum majus ft minus in all time. And how is it possible but this should have an operation...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says:... | |
 | George Burnett - 1813 - عدد الصفحات: 550
...men's works like the first letter of a patent or limned book; which, though it hath large nourishes, yet it is but a letter ? It seems to me that Pygmalion's...them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning, he says:... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1815 - عدد الصفحات: 324
...Pygmalion's frenzy seems a good emblem of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter : and unless they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is to fall in love with a picture. Yet the illustrating the obscurities of philosophy, with sensible and... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - عدد الصفحات: 648
...it hath large flourishes, yet it is but » letter? It seems to me that Pygmalion's frenzy is agood emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are...them is all one, as to fall in love with a picture. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the obscurity,... | |
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Pygmalion's frenzy is a good emblem or portraiture of this vanity : for words are but the images of matter ; and except they have life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 
