 It seems to me that 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.  Of the Proficience and Advancement of Learning - الصفحة xبواسطة Francis Bacon - 1851 - عدد الصفحات: 341عرض كامل - لمحة عن هذا الكتاب
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1881 - عدد الصفحات: 104
...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. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
 | Henry Norman Hudson - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 134
...: for words are but the images of matter ; and, except they have the life of reason and invention, to fall in love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture." In another passage, he puts the matter as follows : " Surely, like as many substances in... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - عدد الصفحات: 564
...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. Cambridge, and Ascham, 1 with their lectures and writings, almost deify Cicero and Demosthenes,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 436
...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. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 540
...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." * Another reason for Bacon's indifference to English style was that he wrote for posterity... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1885 - عدد الصفحات: 438
...words are but the images of matter ; and sexcept they have life of reason and invention, to fall in i love with them is all one as to fall in love with a picture. 4. But yet notwithstanding it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Franklin Verzelius Newton Painter - 1886 - عدد الصفحات: 378
...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." * The Novum Organum, part of a vast, unfinished work called the Instauratio Jfayna, was published... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1888 - عدد الصفحات: 516
...Words," says Bacon, " 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." Miiller quotes Hegel as saying that " we think in names ; " and it may be true enough that... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 628
...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. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be con'lemned, to clothe and adorn... | |
 | Sir Henry Craik - 1894 - عدد الصفحات: 624
...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. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn the... | |
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