 ... public faces and deportments of persons, and passeth over in silence the smaller passages and motions of men and matters. But such being the workmanship of God, as He doth hang the greatest weight upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens,...  The Knickerbocker: Or, New-York Monthly Magazine - Pagina 265geredigeerd door - 1847Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pagina’s
...upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 pagina’s
...upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspenders, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pagina’s
...upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of a necessity contain a more true, native, and lively representation. So again narrations and relations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1838 - 898 pagina’s
...upon the smallest wires, maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward re- i sorts thereof. But lives, if they be well written, propounding to themselves a person to represent,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pagina’s
...smallest wires, ''maxima è miuimis suspendens,''2 it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the...But Lives, if they be well written, propounding to them1 Imperfectly concocted. 2 Suspending the ¿Teatest things from the least. selves a person to represent... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1858 - 666 pagina’s
...Especially will history be taught in the university ; — not that of which Bacon hath said that ' it doth rather set forth the pomp of business, than the true and inward resorts thereof,' but that which really unfolds the causes, expounds the direction, and prophecies the results of human action... | |
 | 1853 - 666 pagina’s
...Especially will history be taught in the university ; — not that of which Bacon hath said that ' it doth rather set forth the pomp of business, than the true and inward resorts thereof,' but that which really unfolds the causes, expounds the direction, and prophecies the results of human action... | |
 | John Campbell Baron Campbell - 1845 - 684 pagina’s
...is executed, but I am more and more convinced that the subject is happily chosen. " HISTORIES," says Lord Bacon, " do rather set forth the pomp of business...themselves a person to represent, in whom actions both jjreater and smaller, public and private, have a commixture, must of necessity contain a more true,... | |
 | Lady Theresa Lewis - 1852 - 424 pagina’s
...happy illustration of Lord Bacon's description of the advantages of biography. " Lives," says he, " if they be well written, " propounding to themselves...private, have a commixture, must of necessity " contain a true, native, and lively representation." From the writings of that " good pen " " a true and " lively... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 pagina’s
...upon the smallest wires, Maxima e minimis suspendens, it comes therefore to pass, that such histories do rather set forth the pomp of business than the true and inward resorts thereof. But Hoes, if they be well written, propounding to themselves a person to represent in whom actions both... | |
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