 | Basil Montagu - 1812 - 494 pages
...much better than that noise or sound which mu" sicians make while they are tuning their instru" ments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet " is a...the instruments of " the Muses, that they may play who have better " hands. And, surely, when I set before me the " condition of these times, from the... | |
 | 1821 - 404 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And, surely, when I set before me the condition of these times in which learning... | |
 | 1821 - 408 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause vrhy the music is sweeter afterwards. So have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 pages
...own work, not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...muses, that they may play that have better hands." To posterity and distant ages Bacon bequeathed his good name, and posterity and distant ages will do... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 pages
...own work), not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...sweeter afterwards: so have I been content to tune the instru• ments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands. And surely, when I set before... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1834 - 458 pages
...own work) not much better than the noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...condition of these times, in which learning hath made her (a) The passage is as follows : " In the handling of this science, those which have written seem to... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1825 - 538 pages
...whole book is not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...muses, that they may play that have better hands. * See the Treatise " De Augmentis," where some progress is made in this science, now nobly advanced,... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1840 - 244 pages
...own work), not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...is sweeter afterwards : so have I been content to rune the instruments of the muses, that they may play that have better hands. And surely, when I set... | |
 | David Irving - 1841 - 448 pages
...which is nothing pleasant to heare, but yet is a cause why the musique is sweeter afterwards. So haue I been content to tune the instruments of the Muses, that they may play that haue better hands. And surely when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1846 - 730 pages
...own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments; which is nothing pleasant to hear, but...may play that have better hands. And surely, when 1 set before me the condition of these times, in which learning hath made her third visitation or circuit... | |
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I have passed through, this writing seemeth to me, " si nunquam fallit imago ''f as far as a man can judge of his own work, not much better than that noise or sound which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments; which is nothing pleasant... 
