 | Ralph Cudworth - 1820 - 542 pages
...nature? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest ; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth, Thomas Birch - 1829 - 554 pages
...nature? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest ; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - 1837 - 810 pages
...nature ? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest ; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | 1844 - 276 pages
...nature ? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - 1845 - 696 pages
...nature ? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest ; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | Ralph Cudworth - 1845 - 694 pages
...nature ? verily in this manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the last and lowest ; for nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of reason shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly... | |
 | January Searle - 1855 - 94 pages
...mystery and meaning of the universe and of the .human soul. This is the groundwork of it, being a passage from Plotinus : " Nature is but an image or imitation...nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." The treatise is wrought out under the following headings : — " Commodity," " Beauty," " Language,"... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pages
...Library Association, in Boston, US, at the Odeon, Wednesday, 7th February, 1844 241 NATURE. "Nature & but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing...nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." PLOTINUS. INTRODUCTION. age is retrospective. It builds the sepulchres of the fathers. It writes biographies,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 416 pages
...was published in September, 1836. The author's name was not given. The title-page bore these words from Plotinus, " Nature is but an image or imitation...nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." Its leading thought is that contained in its original motto, — " A subtle chain of countless rings... | |
 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 406 pages
...correcting the proof-sheets, and it was published in September. In the first edition was prefixed this motto from Plotinus : — ' " Nature is but an image or...Nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." Nature, or the existing world, is the realization of the Divine Mind in time and space; the effect... | |
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Nature is but an image or imitation of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; Nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know. 
