 | James Wilson - 1804 - 514 strani
...beautiful, but, in fact, are without utility. They make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give...of their sect, exert not their judgment unbiassed, • tfut harangue as if they were in chains. But certainly, continues he, the knowledge of this subject... | |
 | Samuel Phelps - 1818 - 634 strani
...statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imagi* Thelyphthora. nary laws for imaginary commonwealths; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because of their altitude or vast distance. The lawyers write according to the states where they live; what... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1819 - 648 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1824 - 642 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers^ they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 432 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosphers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths ; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1825 - 524 strani
...none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths ; and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1834 - 784 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live ; what is received law, and not... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1826 - 626 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light, because they are so high. For the lawyers, they write according to the states where they live, what is received law, and not... | |
 | Sir James Mackintosh - 1828 - 108 strani
...and none as statesmen. As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high."— " H&c coy nit io ad viros civile s proprie pertinet," as he telk us in another part of his writings;... | |
 | 1829 - 460 strani
...SIDNEY is one of those delightful writers of the olden time, who, as Lord Bacon beautifully remarks, ' are as the -stars which give little light because they are so high.' Few, indeed, read, and still fewer study, the works which it has lately become the fashion to laud... | |
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As for the philosophers, they make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high. 
