 | William Wordsworth - 1870 - 390 pages
...when he finds himself maintained by a Man, who to him is instead of a God, or Melior Natura. \VMch courage is manifestly such, as that Creature without...favour, gathereth a force and faith which human Nature in itself could not obtain.' CANTO FIRST. LOUD BACON. PEOM Bolton's old monastic tower The bells ring... | |
 | Henry Whitney Bellows - 1870 - 456 pages
...is in place of a God, or melior naiura ; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, -without confidence of a better nature than his own, could...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain : therefore, as atheism... | |
 | Edwin Abbott Abbott - 1870 - 304 pages
...and courage he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon...favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain." And we all know how powerfully children are influenced by their parents,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1893 - 342 pages
...by some he has been considered as the latest of the fathers of the Church. 2 " A superior nature." manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith, which human nature in itself could not obtain ; therefore, as atheism... | |
 | Henry Clark Powell - 1896 - 524 pages
...truth of human nature did not escape the observant eye of Lord Bacon. " Man," he somewhere remarks, " when he resteth and assureth himself upon Divine protection...favour, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain." Probably the law is of much wider application. It seems not improbable... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1896 - 312 pages
...Wreaths that endure afflictions heaviest shower. And do not shrink from sorrow s keenest wind. ED. himself upon Divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and faith which human Nature in itself could not obtain." LORD BACON.* CANTO FIRST FROM Bolton's old monastic tower f The bells... | |
 | Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton - 1898 - 544 pages
...put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who, to him, is instead of a God, or melior naturti, which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...force and faith which human nature could not obtain. ' ' You are silent, but your gesture tells me your doubt, — a doubt which your heart, so femininely... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 542 pages
...he will put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who to him is instead of a God, or niclior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism... | |
 | John Clark Ridpath - 1898 - 540 pages
...put on when he finds himself maintained by a man who to him is instead of a God, or melior iiatura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain. Therefore, as atheism... | |
 | Andrew Lang, Donald Grant Mitchell - 1898 - 560 pages
...on when he finds himself maintained by a man, who to him is instead of a God, " a superior nature "; which courage is manifestly such as that creature,...resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favor, gathereth a force and faith which human nature in itself could not obtain; therefore, as atheism... | |
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God, or melior natura; which courage is manifestly such as that creature, without that confidence of a better nature than his own, could never attain. So man, when he resteth and assureth himself upon divine protection and favour, gathereth a force and... 
