 | Sir Charles Sedley - 1707 - 424 pages
...Ingredients, that, mould it ever take effeft, I f<?ar it would carry the neceflary Confcqtfence of a ftanding Power and Force, to keep us .from falling afunder, and breaking in pieces every Moment : Forf as my Lord Bacon well obferves, (who I take to have been a very great Man, though foraetimes... | |
 | Abel Boyer - Great Britain - 1707 - 726 pages
...got the better of the Philofbphcr.) A * "Unity, fays he, that u flcc'd up by /* dircft Adrt. ijjion 4 of Contraries in the Fundamental Points of it, is like * the Toes o/NebuchadnezarV lmr?e, which rtcre made * of Iron and City ; they may cleave together, but ' can never... | |
 | Esq. Robert Campbell - Great Britain - 1745 - 390 pages
...' that fhould it ever take effect, I fear it would carry « the neceflary Confequence of a ftanding Power and ' Force, to keep us from falling afunder...in ' pieces every Moment. For as my Lord Bacon well ob' ferves, (whom I take to have been a very great Man, * tho,' fame times the Courtier got the Better... | |
 | Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - Great Britain - 1762 - 572 pages
...that, fliould it ever take effect, I fear it " would carry the neceflary confequence of a (landing power " and force, to keep us from falling afunder,...in pieces every moment. For, as my lord Bacon well ob«' ferves (whom I take to be a very great man, tho' fome" times the courtier got the better of the... | |
 | Nicolas Tindal - Great Britain - 1762 - 578 pages
...that, ihould it ever take cftedt, I fear it «' would carry the neceflary confequence of a ftanding power " and force, to keep us from falling afunder,...in pieces every moment. For, as my lord Bacon well ob«e ferves (whom I- take to be a very great man, tho' fome«' times the courtier got the better of... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1829 - 764 pages
...who, speaking on this very subject, observed, that ' an unity that is forced up by a direct admission of contraries in the fundamental points of it, is like the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image, made of iron and clay — they may cleave together, they can never incorporate.'... | |
 | George Buchanan - Scotland - 1829 - 742 pages
...who, speaking on this very subject, observed, that ' an unity that is forced up by a direct admission of contraries in the fundamental points of it, is like the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image, made of iron and clay — they may cleave together, they can never incorporate.'... | |
 | George Buchanan - 1856 - 686 pages
...who, speaking on this very subject, observed, that ' an unity that is forced up by a direct admission of contraries in the fundamental points of it, is like the toes of Nebuchadnezzar's image, made of iron and clay — they may cleave together, they can never incorporate.'... | |
 | James Mackinnon - Scotland - 1896 - 556 pages
...maintained by force. He quoted Bacon to prove that " a unity that is pieced up by a direct admission of contraries, in the fundamental points of it, is like the toes of Nebuchadnezar's image, which were made of clay and iron". They might cleave together ; they could never... | |
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would carry the neceflary confequence of a (landing power " and force, to keep us from falling afunder, and breaking ** in pieces every moment. For, as my lord Bacon well ob«' ferves (whom I take to be a very great man, tho... 