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" The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes, and secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. "
The works of lord Bacon, moral and historical, with a brief memoir of the ... - Page 292
by Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1877 - 524 pages
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Development of English Literature and Language, Volume 1

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 558 pages
...worthy of the name, Solomon's House, 'the end of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...human empire to the effecting of all things possible.' His Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren of practical...
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Development of English Literature and Language

Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1108 pages
...worthy of the name, Solomon's House, ' the end of whose foundation is the knowledge of causes and the secret motions of things, and the enlarging of the...bounds of human empire to the effecting of all things possible.'THa Motive. — The intense conviction that knowledge, in its existing state, was barren...
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The essays of lord Bacon, including his moral and historical works, with ...

Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1884 - 564 pages
...also sometimes (which may seem strange) for curing of some diseases, and for prolongation of life in " The end of our foundation is the knowledge of causes...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. some hermits that choose to live there, well accommodated of all things necessary, and, indeed, live...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Volume 36

Royal Society (Great Britain) - Electronic journals - 1884 - 558 pages
...Solomon's House — he, whose countenance was " as if he pitied men," — declares that the end of that foundation is " the knowledge of causes and secret...human empire to the effecting of all things possible." I think that the Chancellor would have acknowledged the New Natural History Museum to be a goodly wing...
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Francis Bacon: An Account of His Life and Works

Edwin Abbott Abbott - England - 1885 - 540 pages
...its inmates, and their ordinances and rites ; and he at once states the object of the House to be " the knowledge of Causes and secret motions of things,...empire, to the effecting of all things possible." Here the literary interest ceases : for the rest of the fragment consists <){ little more than an enumeration...
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Sonnenschein's Cyclopaedia of Education: A Handbook of Reference on All ...

Alfred Ewen Fletcher - Education - 1892 - 580 pages
...words imputed to the president or father of the house, 'the knowledge of causes and secret notions of things, and the enlarging of the bounds of human...empire to the effecting of all things possible.' The fellows cî the college were employed severally as travelling fellows, called merchants of light, as...
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Ideal Commonwealths: Plutarch's Lycurgus; More's Utopia; Bacon's New ...

Henry Morley - Utopias - 1896 - 294 pages
...a relation of the true state of Salomon's House. Son, to make you know the true state of Salomon's House, I will keep this order. First, I will set forth...the enlarging of the bounds of human empire, to the eifecting of all things possible, v " The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and...
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Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social ..., Volume 10

Political science - 1901 - 344 pages
...a relation of the true state of Salomon's House. Son, to make you know the true state of Salomon's House, I will keep this order. First, I will set forth...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. B The preparations and instruments are these. We have large and deep caves of several depths; the deepest...
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Ideal Empires and Republics: Rousseau's Social Contract, More's Utopia ...

Utopias - 1901 - 352 pages
...Salomon's House. Son, to make you know the true state of Salomon's House, I will keep this order. Fjiat, I will set forth unto you the end of our foundation....secret motions of things; and the enlarging of the iK-,-. ...bounds of human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. " The preparations and instruments...
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The Tragedy of Sir Francis Bacon: An Appeal for Further Investigation and ...

Harold Bayley - 1902 - 334 pages
...will impart unto thee for the love of God and men, a relation of the true state of Solomon's House. First I will set forth unto you the end of our Foundation,...human empire, to the effecting of all things possible. ..." " For the several employments and offices of our fellows, we have twelve that sail into foreign...
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