 | Advanced reading book - 1860 - 458 pagina’s
...— and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it — is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...the sense, the last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his spirit. First he breathed light upon the face... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1861 - 408 pagina’s
...of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature. The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the 1 Perhaps lie was thinking of St. Augustine. — See Aug. Confess, i. 25, 26. 2 " The wine of evil... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pagina’s
...the six days was the light of sense — the last was the light of reason — and his sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First, he breathed light upon the face of matter or chaos, then he breathed light into the face of man ; and still he breathes and inspires light... | |
 | James Gilfillan - 1862 - 660 pagina’s
...have the aspect of denominational controversy. "The first creature of God in the works of the daya was the light of the sense, the last was the light of reason, and hia Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of hia Spirit." LORD BACON. PREFACE. THE author of... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1864 - 406 pagina’s
...although it was formerly used freely for every thing created,—as when Bacon says (Essay, Of Truth), " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...the sense; the last was the light of reason; and his Sabhath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit;" or (Advance, of Learning, B. £.), " The... | |
 | Words, Horatius Bonar - 1866 - 370 pagina’s
...swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid. 8. Great riches have sold more men than they have bought. 9. The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...the light of the sense ; the last was the light of the reason; and His Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of His Spirit. 10. Clear and round... | |
 | Nathaniel Holmes - 1867 - 636 pagina’s
...all things, and he is the cause of all the beautiful. — Plato's /-;l//>..'.. If. to Dionysius, u The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...sense ; the last was the light of reason : and his Sabbath work erer since is the illumination of hli Spirit." — Bacon's Essay of 7Vu(4. § 1. THE TRUE... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 586 pagina’s
...of the populace, must remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. TEUTH. LOED BACON. THE first creature of God, in the works of the days,...the sense, the last was the light of reason, and his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the face... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1867 - 414 pagina’s
...although it was formerly used freely for everything created, — as when Bacon says {Essay of Truth*), " The first creature of God, in the works of the days,...sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his Sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his spirit ; " or {Adv. of Learning, B. i.), " The wit... | |
 | Henry Coppée - 1867 - 588 pagina’s
...remember that their insolence in peace is bravery in war. From " Political Tradi." TRUTH. LORD BAfON. THE first creature of God, in the works of the days,...light of the sense, the last was the light of reason, nnd his Sabbath work, ever since, is the illumination of his Spirit. First he breathed light upon the... | |
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The first creature of God, in the works of the days, was the light of the sense ; the last was the light of reason ; and his sabbath work ever since is the illumination of his Spirit. 
