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" 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 - Seite x
von Francis Bacon - 1851 - 341 Seiten
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Lord Bacon's Essays, Or Counsels Moral and Civil: Translated from the Latin ...

Francis Bacon - 1720 - 576 Seiten
...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...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the Close of ...

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 Seiten
...vanity; /or •tvords 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. Among various other errors which he points' out as impediments to the progress of learn--...
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Specimens of English prose-writers, from the earliest times to the ..., Band 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 528 Seiten
...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. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments to the progress of learning,...
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Specimens of English Prose Writers: From the Earliest Times to the ..., Band 2

George Burnett - 1807 - 970 Seiten
...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. Among various other errors which he points out as impediments tp the progress of learning,...
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An Analytical Abridgment of Locke's Essay Concerning Human Understanding

John Locke - 1808 - 346 Seiten
...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...
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The baptist Magazine

1852 - 862 Seiten
...Bacon, — " 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." We regret to be constrained thus to animadvert on a young beginner. One feature in our author...
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The Works of Francis Bacon, Band 1

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 Seiten
...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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The Retrospective Review.., Band 3

Henry Southern - 1821 - 398 Seiten
...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 pict\ire. But yet, notwithstanding, it is a thing not hastily to be condemned, to clothe and adorn...
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The Retrospective Review, Band 3

1821 - 400 Seiten
...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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