 | January Searle - 1855 - 94 pàgines
...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 of wisdom, the last thing of the soul ; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." The treatise is wrought out under the following... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - 1866 - 298 pàgines
...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 of the soul ; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know." PLOTINUS. INTRODUCTION. age is retrospective.... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 544 pàgines
...Porphyry. He died towards the close of the third century of our era. The following is from him : " How doth wisdom differ from that which is called nature...manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the least and lowest ; for nature is but an imitation or image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pàgines
...celebrated Porphyry. He died towards the close of the third century of our era. The following is from him: " How doth wisdom differ from that which is called nature...manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the least and lowest; for nature is but an imitation or image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 420 pàgines
...Porphyry. He died towards the close of the third century of our era. The following is from him : " How doth wisdom differ from that which is called nature...manner, that wisdom is the first thing, but nature the least and lowest; for nature is but an imitation or image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which... | |
 | Jacob Merrill Manning - 1872 - 418 pàgines
...wisdom is the first thing, but nature the least and lowest ; for nature is but an imitation or image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul, which hath the lowest impress of wisdom shining upon it ; as when a thick piece of wax is thoroughly impressed on a seal, that impress,... | |
 | George Willis Cooke - 1881 - 406 pàgines
...September, 1836. The author's name was not given. The title-page bore these words from Plotinus, " 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." Its leading thought is that contained in... | |
 | William Hague - 1884 - 84 pàgines
...highest possibilities of humanity. The motto upon the title-page was a quotation from Plotinus : " 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." In the first words of this new book, the... | |
 | Oliver Wendell Holmes - 1884 - 488 pàgines
...write down." The first edition of " Nature " had prefixed to it the following words from Plotinus : " 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." This is omitted in after editions, and in... | |
 | James Elliot Cabot - 1887 - 412 pàgines
...and it was published in September. In the first edition was prefixed this motto from Plotinus: — " 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." Nature, or the existing world, is the realization... | |
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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. 
