 Neither is it any quantity of knowledge how great soever that can make the mind of man to swell; for nothing can fill, much less extend, the soul of man, but God and the contemplation of God; and therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses...  Dante and the Early Astronomers - Side 554af Mary Acworth Orr - 1807 - 359 siderFuld visning - Om denne bog
 | Jacques Saurin - 1800 - 308 sider
...fathom. The more they nourish themselves with this rich pasture, the more keen do their appetites become. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, and of making many books there is no end. 2. Remark next the little justice done in the world to such... | |
 | Jacques Saurin, Robert Robinson - 1806 - 406 sider
...fathom. The more they nourish themselves with this rich pasture, the more keen do their appetites become. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing, and of making many books there is no end. 2. Remark next the little justice done in the \ world to... | |
 | James Hall (of Walthamstow.) - 1807 - 398 sider
...spars of Derbyshire, the manufactories at Sheffield, Birmingham, Manchester, &c. draw numbers to these places, it is not surprizing that Ben Lomond, and...sumptuously. However, I was agreeably disappointed, and when 1 arrived at DUMBARTON, The idea of its antiquity and former utility, as well as of that civilization... | |
 | Elizabeth Hamilton - 1808 - 436 sider
...ordained, that they should not only contribute to the. use, but add to the enjoyments, of the human race. " The eye is never satisfied •with seeing, nor the ear with hearing;" and hq who implanted these desires, has he not mercifully provided for their gratification ? What are... | |
 | Robert May - 1812 - 280 sider
...is such a bewitching, captivating thing, that when you have been once, you will want to go again : the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. If I do go I will take care to sit where I can easily escape ? But however good your situation may... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 sider
...therefore Solomon, speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ; and if there be no fulness, then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself,... | |
 | London Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) - 1821 - 470 sider
...other evil and hurtful things : the reins of the mind being thus let loose, it ksiowcth no bound*., Mm the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing. Put, dear Friends, there is a state abundantly better, happier,and safer, to be attained, which the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 sider
...therefore Solomon, speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing; and if there be no fulness, then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 sider
...therefore Solomon speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing ; and if there he no fulness, then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 sider
...therefore Solomon, speaking of the two principal senses of inquisition, the eye and the ear, affirmeth that the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing; and if there be no fulness, then is the continent greater than the content : so of knowledge itself,... | |
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