 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 pages
...might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft, he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things..." that the nature of " every thing is best seen in his smallest portions." And for that cause he inquireth the nature of a commonwealth, first in a family,... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 404 pages
...for if he had lookt down, he might have seen the starres in the water : and therefore Aristotle notes well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in its smallest portions. For that cause he inquires the nature of a common-wealth, first in a family and the simple conjugations... | |
 | Books - 1821 - 408 pages
...for if he had lookt down, he might have seen the starres in the water : and therefore Aristotle notes well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in its smallest portions. For that cause he inquires the nature of a common-wealth, first in a family and the simple conjugations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - English essays - 1824 - 642 pages
...might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft, he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things..." that the nature of " every thing is best seen in his smallest portions." And for that cause he inquireth the nature of a commonwealth, first in a family,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - Logic - 1825 - 432 pages
...might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things...every thing is best seen in its smallest portions." v And for that cause he inquireth the nature of a commonwealth, first in a family, and the simple conjugations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...of great matters than great things to the discovery of small matters ; and therefore Aristotle notes well, that the nature of every thing is best seen in its smallest portions. For that cause he inquires the nature of a commonwealth, first, in a family and the simple conjugations... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 546 pages
...great matters, than great " things to the discovery of small matters; and " therefore Aristotle notes well, that the nature of " every thing is best seen in its smallest portions. " For that cause he inquires the nature of a com" monwealth, first in a family and the simple conju"... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...might have seen the, stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things discover great, belter than great can discover the small. Aristotle noteth well, " that the nature of every thing is... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 pages
...might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft, he could not sec the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass, that mean and small things...great, better than great can discover the small ; and there4" TC Aristotle noteth well, " that the nature of every thing is best seen in his smallest portions."... | |
 | Kenelm Henry Digby - Chivalry - 1826 - 330 pages
...universa certe tamen inter se connexa atque conjuncta movere debebunt." And, as Lord Bacon says, " it cometh often to pass that mean and small things...great, better than great can discover the small." And first. I hold that we have a vast debt of gratitude to discharge : not to speak of Christianity; letters,... | |
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... that while he gazed upwards to the stars fell into the water; for if he had looked down he might have seen the stars in the water, but looking aloft he could not see the water in the stars. So it cometh often to pass that mean and small things discover... 
