 And yet surely to alchemy this right is due, that it may be compared to the husbandman whereof ^Esop makes the fable, that when he died told his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under ground in his vineyard ; and they digged...  Works - Side 402af Francis Bacon - 1841Fuld visning - Om denne bog
 | John Edward Mercer - 1921 - 270 sider
...sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard ; and they digged all over the ground, and gold they found none, but by reason...make gold hath brought to light a great number of 203 good and fruitful inventions and experiments as well for the disclosing of nature as for the use... | |
 | George Reuben Potter - 1928 - 640 sider
...his sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mold about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following; so assuredly the... | |
 | 1856 - 1026 sider
...they had with spades diligently turned up all the vineyard, gold indeed they found none ; however, by reason of their stirring and digging the mould about the roots of their vines, they had a very great vintage the year following. So the strenuous pains and mighty stir of chemists about making... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1818 - 624 sider
...left " them gold buried under ground in his vineyard ; and they " digged all over the ground, and yet they found none ; but by " reason of their stirring...roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the following " year." It would, if I do not mistake the matter, be as difficult to explain, how this simile... | |
 | Alfred Edward Housman - 1969 - 64 sider
...unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold 19 they found none; but by reason of their stirring and...vines, they had a great vintage the year following'. I could take no better example of what I mean than the early Greek hexameters of Richard Dawes. In... | |
 | Richard Rhodes - 2012 - 890 sider
...his sons that he had left unto them gold buried underground in his vineyard; and they digged all over the ground, and gold they found none; but by reason...of good and fruitful inventions and experiments." Quoted in Seaborg (1958), p. xxi. 198. the Gamows' escape: cf. Gamow (1970), p. 108ff. 198-199. "I... | |
 | Francis Bacon, Rose-Mary Sargent - 1999 - 340 sider
...his sons that he had left unto them gold buried under ground in his vineyard, and they dug over all the ground, and gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mold about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following. So assuredly the... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 2002 - 868 sider
...sons that he had left unto them gold buried under ground in his vineyard; and they digged over all the ground, and gold they found none, but by reason of their stirring and digging the mould0 about the roots of their vines, they had a great vintage the year following: so assuredly the... | |
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