| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1860 - 1008 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1861 - 752 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained it, which is never perfect. secret-service money, or in plain words, the business of buying member to* day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." 278 279 Great and various as the powers of Bacon... | |
| 1862 - 610 Seiten
...mind its own chosen adage, and that it should remember what it has said of itself, namely this — ' It is a philosophy which never rests — its law is...was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-point to-morrow.' This utterance is now five-andtwenty years old ; and, in this course of... | |
| Henry Ince - 1864 - 310 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Speaking generally, no modern literature can compare with that which is enshrined... | |
| John Bruce Norton - 1865 - 394 Seiten
...CLXXXI. " It is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained ; which is never perfeet. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow."—MACADLAY'S E>say on "Bacon. Search on : nor tremble lest presumption wake... | |
| Rationalism - 1865 - 64 Seiten
...fruit. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to day, and will be its starting point to morrow.* The dreamy Philosophy of Athens and the interminable... | |
| Thomas Babington Macaulay Baron Macaulay - 1866 - 758 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
| Thomas Babington baron Macaulay - 1866 - 734 Seiten
...fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which has never attained, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Great and various as the powers of Bacon were, he owes his wide and durable... | |
| James Anthony Froude, John Tulloch - 1866 - 860 Seiten
...to be questioned : for they were to such a degree in harmony with the ideas of the ignorant and 1 ' A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its startingpost to-morrow.' — Macaulay, speaking of the new philosophy. - Nov. Org. Aph 35. The same... | |
| Jacob Bigelow - 1867 - 404 Seiten
...its fruits and of its first-fruits. For it is a philosophy which never rests, which is never perfect. Its law is progress. A point which yesterday was invisible is its goal to-day, and will be its starting-post to-morrow." Thus spoke the " Edinburgh Review " just thirty years ago ; and since that... | |
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