 | Страниц: 388
...presenting a more agreeable variety than real chronicles, and, as Lord Bacon well observes, " raising the mind by accommodating the images of things to...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." After all, this is only a fitting homage paid to that feeling of virtue, which scarcely ever ceases... | |
 | 1852 - Страниц: 782
...ROYAL ACADEMY. THE catalogue of the present season is adorned with a motto from Bacon — " Painting raises the mind by accommodating the images of things to our desires." There is a great deal of meaning m this short phrase, and it would very well serve for a text upon... | |
 | 1863 - Страниц: 788
...ON THE STRUCTURE OF SOCIETY. what is ideally or theoretically excellent. " Painting," says Bacon, " raises the mind by accommodating the images of things to our desires." We are conscious of desires in relation to social and political improvement, -which, though their images... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1872 - Страниц: 602
...inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. Whence it may be justly esteemed of a Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. And by these its charms, and congruity to the mind, with the assistance also of music, which conveys... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1876 - Страниц: 900
...delights, but inculcates morality and nobleness of aoul. It raises the mind by accommodating the image of things to our desires, and not. like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." There are, however, dangers -to be avoided in using fiction as an educational agent, which we may thus... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - Страниц: 934
...delights, but inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. It raises the mind by accommodating the image of things to our desires, and not. like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things." There are, however, dangers to be avoided in using fiction as an educational agent, which we may thus... | |
 | Henry Kiddle, Alexander Jacob Schem - 1883 - Страниц: 984
...delights, but inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. It raises the mind by accommodating the image of things to our desires, and not. like history and reason, subjecting the miiid to things." There are, however, dangers to be avoided in using fiction as an educational agent,... | |
 | David Herschell Edwards - 1897 - Страниц: 382
...Bacon says, in his pithy, pregnant way : — " Poetry may justly be esteemed of a Divine nature, as it raises the mind by accommodating the images of...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. And by these, its charms and congruity to the mind, with the assistance also of music, which conveys... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1900 - Страниц: 542
...inculcates morality and nobleness of soul. Whence it may be justly esteemed of a Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of...history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. And by these its charms, and congruity to the mind, with the assistance also of music, which conveys... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1901 - Страниц: 606
...Whence it may be justly esteemed of a Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the image* of things to our desires, and not, like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. And by these its charms, and congruity to the mind, with the assistance also of music, which conveys... | |
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Divine nature, as it raises the mind, by accommodating the images of things to our desires, and not, like history and reason, subjecting the mind to things. 
