 | 1856 - 792 pages
...instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to 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... | |
 | 1856 - 732 pages
...which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a causa why tho music ig sweeter afterward : so have I boon content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may play who have better hands. And surely, when I sot before me thi ci)ii!Î!tion of tiiesií ti m ¿s, in... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 684 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her 'third visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1858 - 686 pages
...it to perfect harmony, that hereafter the strings may be touched by a better hand or a better quill. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which learning seems to have now made her third visitation to men ; and when at the same time I attentively behold... | |
 | 1858 - 1074 pages
...That noise or sound which musicians make while the; are tuning their instruments ; which is nothinx pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the music is tweeter afterwards."— Bae^n. " Music tuning as in tune's despite." — L. Hunt. Peculiar effects... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Basil Montagu - 1859 - 616 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...so have I been content to tune the instruments of thl muses, that they may play that have oetto hands. 8. Observations upon the prospects of the progress... | |
 | George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana - 1859 - 814 pages
...improved by the labor of man, he compared to the noise which musicians make while they are tuning their instruments, " which is nothing pleasant to hear, but yet is a cause why the tnnsid Is sweeter afterward ;" and at the close of his survey he predicted that " the third period... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1860 - 390 pages
...me . . . 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. — Bacon (Adv. of Learning). P. 369, n. A, 1. 4. — In some manuscripts, axioms X. and XI. are reckoned... | |
 | 1860 - 836 pages
...instruments, which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward; so have I been content to 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... | |
 | Julius Charles Hare, Augustus William Hare - 1861 - 652 pages
...instruments ; which is nothing pleasant to hear, yet is a cause why the music is sweeter afterward : so have I been content to tune the instruments of the muses, that they may pluy who have better hands. And surely, when I set before me the condition of these times, in which... | |
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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... 
