 | Sir George Cornewall Lewis - 1849 - 454 σελίδες
...their acts or masterpieces, but physicians, and perhaps politicians, are judged only by the event. " We see the weakness and credulity of men is such,...prefer a mountebank or witch before a learned physician In all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches and old women and impostors have had a competition... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 892 σελίδες
...or ruined, whether it be art or accident? And therefore many times the impostor is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we see the weakness and...clear-sighted in discerning this extreme folly, when they made .£sculapius and Circe brother and sister, both children of the sun, as in the verses, En. vii. 772.... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1850 - 590 σελίδες
...or ruined, whether it be art or accident? And therefore many times the impostor is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we see the weakness and...clear-sighted in discerning this extreme folly, when they made Jasculapius and Circe brother and sister, both children of the sun, as in the verses, JEn. vii. 772.... | |
 | Edward Hazen Parker - 1851 - 694 σελίδες
...close this imperfect sketch with the words of Lord Bacon, Vol. I. page 120, Lond. 1824. •• \Ve see the weakness and credulity of men is such, as...clear-sighted, in discerning this extreme folly, when they made JEsculapius and Circe brother and sister. For, in all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches,... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1851 - 376 σελίδες
...Importer is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we fee the weaknefs and credulity of men is fuch, as they will often prefer a Mountebank or Witch before a learned Phyfician. And therefore the Poets were clear-fighted in difcerning this extreme folly, when they made... | |
 | Francis Bacon (visct. St. Albans.) - 1852 - 238 σελίδες
...or ruined, whether it be art or accident? And therefore many times the impostor is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we see the weakness and...clear-sighted in discerning this extreme folly, when they made ^Esculapius and Circe brother and sister, both children of the sun, as in the verses, ^En. vii. 772... | |
 | Francis Bacon - 1854 - 894 σελίδες
...accident ? And therefore many times the impostor is prized, and the man of virtue taxed. Nay, we sec rancis ^scnlapius and Circe brother and sister, both children of the sun, as in the verses, En. vii. 772.... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 360 σελίδες
...Suffer me to close this imperfect sketch, with the words of Lord Bacon, vol. i. page 120, Lond. 1824. " We see the weakness and credulity of men is such,...clear-sighted, in discerning this extreme folly, when they made ^Esculapius and Circe brother and sister. For, in all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches,... | |
 | Lucius Manlius Sargent - 1856 - 368 σελίδες
...Suffer me to close this imperfect sketch, with the words of Lord Bacon, vol. i. page 120, Lond. 1824. " We see the weakness and credulity of men is such,...clear-sighted, in discerning this extreme folly, when they made jEsculapius and Circe brother and sister. For, in all times, in the opinion of the multitude, witches,... | |
 | Thomas Hawkes Tanner - 1856 - 264 σελίδες
...mesmerists, and such like ? Has it not, however, always been so? Does not Bacon himself tell us, that "the weakness and credulity of men is such, as they...often prefer a mountebank or witch before a learned physician,"1 and is the present age less credulous than that of the great philosopher? I fear not!... | |
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... his ability, but is judged most by the event ; which is ever but as it is taken : for who, can tell, if a patient die or recover, or if a state be preserved or ruined, whether it be art or accident ? And therefore many times the impostor is prized,... 
