 The use of this feigned history hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion inferior to the soul...  Spare hours v. 1, 1861 - Página 439por John Brown - 1861Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
 | Heinrich F. Plett - 1994 - 460 páginas
...For if the matter be attentively considered, a sound argument may be drawn from Poesy, to show that there is agreeable to the spirit of man a more ample greatness, a more perfect order, and a more beautiful variety than it can anywhere (since the Fall) find in nature. And... | |
 | Arthur Davis - 1996 - 374 páginas
...hath been to give some shadow of satisfaction to the mind of man in those points wherein the nature of things doth deny it, the world being in proportion...variety than can be found in the nature of things. Therefore, because the acts or events of true history have not that magnitude which satisfieth the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 872 páginas
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 | Francis Bacon - 1996 - 532 páginas
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 | Brian Vickers - 2003 - 655 páginas
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 | Richard Marback - 1999 - 184 páginas
...where history lacks "that magnitude which satisfieth the mind of man," poesy feigns for the imagination "a more ample greatness, a more exact goodness, and a more absolute variety," thereby moving the mind to act on learning by imbuing knowledge with "magnanimity," "morality," and... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2000 - 445 páginas
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 | Alan Singer, Allen Dunn - 2001 - 376 páginas
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